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NCSA offers access to a variety of resources that can be requested through the XSEDE program, or, by University of Illinois users through our Illinois allocations.
Illinois Allocations
To get started with Illinois allocations, request an NCSA Kerberos account at this link. Account creation may take up to 24 hours once requested.
- Once your user account has been created, you can submit proposals for open allocation requests by visiting the NCSA XRAS Submit portal.
See below for a list of currently available Illinois resource allocations:
| Open Resource Allocations | Description | Open Request Period | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
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 August 15 | Free to University of Illinois Urbana campus |
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 |
Previous Allocation Periods:
| Closed Resource Allocations | Description | Open Request Period | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
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.) | Closed May 28th | Free |
XSEDE Allocations
To get started with XSEDE allocations, see the Getting Started with XSEDE page on the XSEDE User Portal.
XSEDE resources are allocated through Research and Education allocations on a quarterly allocation schedule.
| Upcoming XSEDE Submission Periods |
|---|
| XSEDE Quarterly Allocations (June 15 to July 15) |
Note that new users are strongly encouraged to seek a Startup Allocation before requesting a Research Allocation.
You can also obtain access to XSEDE resources through your Campus Champion. You can find out who your local Campus Champion is at this link.
Please contact help@ncsa.illinois.edu if you have any questions or need help getting started with NCSA resources.