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FSU Research Computing Center

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The Research Computing Center at Florida State University enables research and education by maintaining a diverse campus cyberinfrastructure and by providing training opportunities and dedicated consulting.

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What we Do

Compute

Our HPC Cluster provides over 264 TFLOPS of compute to researchers at FSU. We also provide an Interactive Cluster (Spear), and a large managed software library.

Storage

We provide a high I/O parallel file system, GPFS, for use on the HPC and Spear. We also provide a general-purpose archival storage system for long term storing, sharing, and data compliance

Support

In addition to comprehensive support for our core services, we also provide research consulting and assistance, and we also host many outreach and training events.

News & Announcements

Jul 2, 2018 HPC and Spear software upgrade will occur in August

This August, we will perform periodic maintenance on our HPC and Spear clusters. There will be some…

Jul 2, 2018 We've added new GPU nodes to the HPC

An increasing number of scientific libraries and tools are taking advantage of the processing capabi…

May 1, 2018 Data Center Update - Funding Committed for Sliger Renovation

We are pleased to announce that funding has been allocated by the division of Finance and Administra…

Apr 24, 2018 New Scratch Volume

As part of our ongoing migration to GPFS, we have setup a new scratch volume. We encourage all gene…

Apr 6, 2018 Sustainable Energy RAZOR Lecture - April 17

RCC Collaborator Jose Mendoza-Cortes will give a RAZOR Lecture at the Challenger Learning Center: To…

Mar 27, 2018 Migrate your home directory to our new storage system

Our new storage system, GPFS, is now online! We encourage all Panasas and Lustre users to migrate y…

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Upcoming Events

Sep 11 Introduction to High Performance Computing Workshop
This workshop will cover the basics of using the High Performance Computing cluster (HPC) to run computing jobs. It is a great introduction for users new to the HPC or those who wish to brush up on current best-practices and workflows for using the HPC at FSU.
Oct 15 Introduction to Parallel Programming on the HPC
Our "Introduction to Parallel Programming using MPI" is a free, interactive two part workshop that aims to provide a basic introduction to parallel programming using Message Passing Interface (MPI).
Oct 16 Intro to GNU/Linux Workshop
Our "Introduction to Linux for HPC" workshop is a free, interactive workshop that provides a pragmatic introduction to GNU/Linux and the command line. The workshop allows users to begin interacting with the shell and using GNU/Linux in day-to-day environments, such as the RCC.

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