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NCSA welcomes you to the Illinois Computes initiative! We invite you to submit a request briefly describing your intended use of computation, data, or support resources, and we will get back to you within 3 business days: https://go.illinois.edu/ncsaconsulting
See below for a list of NCSA resources, expertise, and systems for your reference.
Access to computing resources and user support for researchers across UIUC
Available Resources
- AI and Machine Learning
- Modeling and Simulation
- Data Science
- Secure computing (HIPAA, CUI, and FERPA)
- Domain Expertise (Engineering, Genomics, Crop Science, Data Analytics, Physics, Geographic Information Systems, Astronomy, and Numerical Methods)
Available Systems
- High Performance Computing
- CPUs
- GPUs
- HIPAA compliant
- Mass storage
- On-premises cloud
Support personnel are available to help
- answer questions about how to get started
- compose and maintain scientific workflow
- benchmarking scientific software
- research solutions to complex questions
- explain the technologies available
- optimize and modernize existing code
- work in a range of programming languages and environments such as C/C++, Python, Java, Perl, MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, Charm++, Containers, SQL, Jupyter, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Jax, OpenACC, CUDA, I/O
- install and maintain software
- consult on scientific applications and codes
- visual data analysis (e.g. data dashboards)
- data visualization for broader impacts, outreach, and science communication (e.g. climate, tornado, film/museum)
- longer term research collaboration in various interdisciplinary domains
- joint proposal development to government funding agencies and industry
Get Started
Interested in getting started, but not sure what you need: Contact us here
Interested in getting started and you already know what you need: Contact us here
Available Systems: NCSA Allocations Anchor Resources Resources
Computing Resources
- Campus Cluster - CPU and GPU batch-submission environment plus storage
- Delta - GPU-rich supercomputer for simulation, AI/ML, Data Science
- Nightingale - HIPAA secure computation environment
- Radiant - private cloud computing service
- HOLL-I - batch computing cluster which provides access to a Cerebras CS-2 Wafer Scale Engine for high performance Machine Learning work
- HAL - GPU-rich cluster for AI/ML
- Hydro - CPU and GPU options for AI/ML/MPI workloads
Storage Resources
- Granite - Tape Archive system, for storing longer term archive datasets.
- Taiga - Global File System that is able to integrate with all non-HIPAA environments