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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

Sep 25, 2018 Sliger Data Center Upgrades Coming

Changes and upgrades are coming to the Sliger Data Center. To facilitate these, some tenants will b…

Sep 12, 2018 Recent Software Upgrades

During our recently completedl August maintenance, we upgraded over 400 software packages on the HPC…

Sep 10, 2018 Storage Migration to GPFS Complete

Our migration to the GPFS storage system is now complete. This new system replaces and consolidates…

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…

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Upcoming Events

Oct 25 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).
Nov 8 Introduction to Python at the HPC
This event is a free, hands-on, interactive workshop that provides a pragmatic introduction to using Python on the HPC and Spear.

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