Home

Welcome

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 .

 

For information on how to use, operate, and navigate the chip cluster

HPCF Wiki

Latest HPCF News

Migration Timeline of HPC Hardware to chip

The DoIT Research Computing Team has deployed a new High-Performance Computing Cluster, chip. This new cluster is better equipped to handle the variety of research workflows than ada or taki. The...

Posted: February 20, 2025, 1:58 PM

Free Webinar: LLMs for Science

Hi Everyone, We wanted to make you aware of a free webinar offered through the Internet2 consortium. Title: From Knowledge to Discovery: Harnessing Large Language Models as Co-pilots for...

Posted: November 13, 2024, 8:22 AM

HPCF Publications Reporting

Please send recent publications and theses

Dear Colleagues and all users of HPCF, Documenting research outcomes in the form of publications is the most important documentation of the usefulness of HPCF!  So, it is a good time again...

Posted: May 1, 2024, 4:01 PM

HPCF User Meeting Friday 01/26/2024

10:00 am in Math/Psyc 102/103

Dear Colleagues and all users of HPCF, TL;DR: (i) user meeting Fri 01/26/2024 10:00 in MP102/103, (ii) send publication info! (iii) hopefully MRI proposal this year...

Posted: January 19, 2024, 9:08 AM

Unscheduled Downtime of taki cluster: Resume Operation

To all taki users, Starting at around 0345 this morning, portions of the taki cluster environment became unresponsive. System administrators have been able to bring the cluster back online....

Posted: October 24, 2023, 12:30 PM