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Open Illinois Allocation Requests
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.
| Open Resource Allocations | Open Request Period | Access |
|---|---|---|
Delta Illinois | June 1 to August 15 | Allocation awarded by NCSA to University of Illinois Urbana campus researchers |
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:
| Submission Period | Meeting Date | Users Notified | Allocation Begin Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15 thru Jan 15 | Early March | March 15 | April 1 |
| Mar 15 thru Apr 15 | Early June | June 15 | Jul 1 |
| Jun 15 thru Jul 15 | Late August/Early September | September 15 | Oct 1 |
| Sep 15 thru Oct 15 | Early December | December 15 | Jan 1 |
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.
Resources
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.
| Name/URL | Type | Description | Primary Use Cases | Hardware/Storage | Allocation Period | Access | User Documentation | User Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HPC | 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. | Coming soon! |
| Allocation awarded by XSEDE | ||||
HPC | 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. | Coming soon! |
| Allocation awarded by NCSA - see Illinois Allocations section below | Coming soon! | Coming soon! | ||
HPC | Radiant is a new private cloud computing service operated by NCSA for the benefit of NCSA and UI faculty and staff. Customers can purchase VM's, computing time in cores, storage of various types and public IP's for use with their VM's. |
| Open Continuously | Cost varies by the Radiant resource requested - see the Radiant wiki page for more details | ||||
HPC | 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. | 8 nodes with: 64GB memory, InfiniBand interconnect, 20 cores (E2670V2 CPU), Tesla K40M GPU 8 nodes with: 64GB memory, InfiniBand interconnect, 20 cores (E2670V2 CPU), No GPU 4 nodes with: 256GB memory, InfiniBand interconnect, 24 cores (E2690V3 CPU), No GPU | ||||||
HTC | 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. | The HTC service is not intended to run MPI jobs | 300 compute nodes with 12-core Intel Xeon X5650 @2.67GHz and 24 GB RAM. Of those, ~2 have 48 GB RAM and ~1 have 96 GB RAM | Allocation awarded by University of Illinois Urbana campus | ||||
Nightingale | HIPAA HPC | HIPAA secure computation environment | Open Continuously | Cost to purchase nodes and storage | ||||
HPC | Startup allocations, along with Trial allocations, are one of the fastest ways to gain access to and start using XSEDE-allocated resources. We recommend that all new XSEDE users begin by requesting Startup allocation. | XSEDE ecosystem | Open Continuously | Allocation awarded to new users by XSEDE | Getting Started on XSEDE | help@xsede.org | ||
| Campus Champion Allocation | HPC | Your local Campus Champion can share their XSEDE allocation, find out who your local Campus Champion is | XSEDE ecosystem | Open Continuously | Allocation awarded by your Campus Champion | Getting Started on XSEDE | help@xsede.org | |
HPC | The XSEDE ecosystem encompasses a broad portfolio of resources operated by members of the XSEDE Service Provider Forum. These resources include multi-core and many-core high-performance computing (HPC) systems, distributed high-throughput computing (HTC) environments, visualization and data analysis systems, large-memory systems, data storage, and cloud systems. Some resources provide unique services for Science Gateways. Some of these resources are made available to the user community through a central XSEDE-managed allocations process, while many other resources operated by Forum members are linked to other parts of the ecosystem. | Allocation awarded by XSEDE | ||||||
| HPC | Education allocations are for academic courses or training activities that have specific begin and end dates. Instructors may request a single resource or a combination of resources. Education requests have the same allocation size limits as Startup requests; per resource limits are in the Startup Limits table. As with Startup requests, Educational requests are limited to no more than three separate computational resources, unless the abstract explicitly justifies the need for each resource to the reviewers' satisfaction. | Allocation awarded by XSEDE | ||||||
| Research IT Software Collaborative Services | Support | Getting Hands-On Programming Support for performance analysis, software optimization, efficient use of accelerators, I/O optimization, data analytics, visualization, use of research computing resources by science gateways, and workflows | Coming soon! | N/A | Allocation awarded by campus Research IT | Research Software Collaborative Services | ||
Archive Storage | Granite is NCSA's Tape Archive system, closely integrated with Taiga, to provide users with a place to store longer term archive datasets. Access to this tape system is available directly via tools such as scp, Globus, and S3. Data written to Granite is replicated to two tapes for mirrored protection in case of tape failure. |
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| Open Continuously | Internal Rate: $16/TB/Year External Rate: Contact Support | |||
Storage | Taiga is NCSA's Global File System that is able to integrate with all non-HIPAA environments in the National Petascale Computation Facility. Built with SSUs (Scaleable Storage Units) spec'd by NCSA engineers with DDN, it provides a center-wide, single-namespace file system that is available to use across multiple platforms at NCSA. This allows researchers to access their data on multiple systems simultaneously; improving their ability to run science pipelines across batch, cloud, and container resources. Taiga is also well integrated with the Granite Tape Archive to allow users to readily stage out data to their tape allocation for long term, cold storage. |
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| Open Continuously | Internal Rate: $32/TB/Year External Rate: Contact Support | |||
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Open Storage Network (OSN) | ||||||||
| VLAD | ||||||||
| Kingfisher |
Please contact help@ncsa.illinois.edu if you have any questions or need help getting started with NCSA resources.