High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Service available to: Faculty, Staff, Researchers
- Themes: Collaboration, Consulting, Data and Storage, Research
- Service Category: Research Computing
- Service Areas: Research-Specific Computing and Applications, Research Software
Description of Service
This service provides faculty, staff, and researchers with access to high performance computing facilities, tools, and expertise for academic and research purposes. The service provides the research community with advice and help for computationally intensive applications, locally, regionally, and nationally.
The service includes:
- Advanced research computing that provides access to local resources such as clusters, GPUs, CPUs, large memory systems (RAM) and large capacity storage.
- Data transfer services that provide tools and support for complex and large data transfer through public, private and research networks.
- Hosting services for advanced computing infrastructure that securely co-locates researcher computing equipment in a dedicated facility with cooling, power management and security.
- Regional and national advanced computing resources including access to and assistance with Compute Canada/WestGrid computing facilities, services and expertise.
In addition to providing support for high performance computing, this service coordinates the university’s participation in regional and national research IT initiatives.
Access
To request HPC resources or support, email arc_support@usask.ca.
Availability of Support
Core Hours: 8:30 am–4:30 pm Monday to Friday
After Hours: N/A
Service Standards
- Service levels and support commitments are outlined in the ICT Core Services Service Level Agreement.
Service Exclusions, Limitations, and Restrictions
- HPC resources can be used for research or teaching purposes provided they are associated with a research project or an officially sanctioned University class.
- HPC services and resources are finite and in high demand. Availability is managed on a first-come-first-served basis.
- There are planned service downtimes that may impact the availability of HPC resources. Planned service downtimes are scheduled to minimize impact to the user community.
- Periodically, there are unplanned service downtimes that may impact the availability of HPC resources.
Service Charges
- There are generally no charges associated with high performance computing services.
Additional Resources