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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 .

 

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

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taki: both login nodes now available

To all taki users, Both taki login nodes (taki-usr1.rs.umbc.edu and taki-usr2.rs.umbc.edu) are now available for use. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting...

Posted: June 23, 2022, 3:22 PM

HPCF Downtime on April 12, 2022 - 5pm to 9pm

To all HPCF users, On Tuesday April 12, 2022 both HPCF clusters (ada & taki) as well as the other compute systems that make use of HPCF Research Storage will be down and inaccessible from...

Posted: April 4, 2022, 11:30 AM

Sub-NUMA Clustering and Change to Default Intel Toolchain

SNC Enabled and intel/2021b is now a default module

All taki users, We'd like to announce that all 2018 and 2021 hardware now has Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) enabled. You can read more about SNC at the link below. Additionally, the Intel...

Posted: March 7, 2022, 9:32 AM

Recording of HPCF User Meeting Available on Panopto

User Meeting from Friday 01/28/2022 11:00-12:00

Dear taki Users, dear colleagues, dear students, I am writing as chair of the governance committee and faculty-lead for the user support in HPCF. It was great to have people visit with me,...

Posted: January 28, 2022, 6:38 PM

HPCF User Meeting

Friday 01/28/2022 11:00-12:00

Dear taki Users, dear colleagues, dear students, I am writing as chair of the governance committee and faculty-lead for the user support in HPCF. First of all, I am glad that you are all...

Posted: January 21, 2022, 10:45 AM