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| Open Resource Allocations | Description | Open Request Period | Cost |
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Delta Illinois | A computing and data resource that balances cutting-edge graphics processor and CPU architectures that will shape the future of advanced research computing. Made possible by the National Science Foundation, Delta will be the most performant GPU computing resource in NSF's portfolio. | June 1 to July 1 | Free to University of Illinois Urbana campus |
Greg Gulick Honorary Research Award from AWS | In honor of Greg Gulick, the late Interim Chief Information Officer of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Amazon Web Services has given $100,000 in AWS credits for research projects focused on combating cancer or COVID-19. University of Illinois faculty and staff with 50% -100% appointments, engaged in research (broadly defined) and/or creative inquiry as part of their professional responsibilities, are eligible to apply. (This includes tenured, tenure-line, specialized faculty, and academic professionals.) | Closing May 28th | Free |
Radiant | Flexible/elastic container based systems that are in close proximity to data. | Open Continuously | $109.70 for 2 vCPUs with 4 GB memory per year, $9.14/month $59.68 for 40 GB flash storage, $4.97/month RADIANT users get priority access to NCSA Storage Condo, $53 per TB/year |
NCSA Investment in the Illinois Campus Cluster Program | NCSA has purchased 20 nodes that affiliates may request access to: https://campuscluster.illinois.edu/new_forms/user_form.php Alternatively, individuals, groups, and campus units can invest in compute and storage resources on the cluster or purchase compute time on demand or storage space by the terabyte/month. | Open Continuously | Cost to purchase nodes, storage, or usage on-demand |
Illinois HTC Program | The High Throughput Computing (HTC) Pilot program is a collaborative, volunteer effort between Research IT, Engineering IT Shared Services, and NCSA. The computing systems that comprise the HTC Pilot resource are retired compute nodes from the Illinois Campus Cluster Program (ICCP) or otherwise idle workstations in Linux Workstation labs. | Open Continuously | Free to University of Illinois Urbana campus |
Nightingale | HIPAA secure computation environment. | Open Continuously | Cost to purchase nodes and storage |
The following resource allocation periods will be open in the near future:
XSEDE Allocations
To get started with XSEDE allocations, see the Getting Started with XSEDE page on the XSEDE User Portal.
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