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The UMBC High Performance Computing Facility is the community-based, interdisciplinary core facility for scientific computing and research on parallel algorithms at UMBC. Started in 2008 by more than 20 researchers from ten academic departments and research centers from all academic colleges at UMBC, it is supported by faculty contributions, federal grants, and the UMBC administration.

Since HPCF’s inception, over 400 users have benefited from its computing clusters, including undergraduate and graduate students. The users have generated over 400 publications, including 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including Nature, Science, and other top-tier journals in their fields), 50 refereed conference papers, and 50 theses. The facility is open to UMBC researchers at no charge.

Researchers can contribute funding for long-term priority access. Administration and maintenance is provided by the UMBC Division of Information Technology (DoIT) advised by the faculty-run Shared Infrastructure Governance committee, and users have access to consulting support provided by dedicated team organized under the Research Computing Group of DoIT.

The UMBC HPCF currently consists of one HPC cluster, chip .

Latest HPCF News

Downtime Complete

To all users, We have successfully patched a critical vulnerability on the system. Jobs that were running were cancelled. We understand this is frustrating and we sincerely apologize for the...

Posted: April 30, 2026, 8:37 PM

Emergency Downtime: Critical Vulnerability

To all users: We will be taking an emergency downtime to patch a critical vulnerability that was announced this morning. During this time users will not be able to login. You should also expect...

Posted: April 30, 2026, 3:29 PM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February....

Posted: April 10, 2026, 6:35 PM

Storage System Performance Update

To all chip users, The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February....

Posted: April 3, 2026, 6:58 PM

REMINDER: RRStor and ada storage maintenance

To all users, A reminder that we are beginning our scheduled downtime for the storage servers for both ada and RRStor. During this time, ada-rstor storage (volumes under /umbc/ada) will be...

Posted: March 31, 2026, 9:24 AM