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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

Jan 21, 2020 Spring 2020 Maintenance Draft Schedule

We have developed a draft schedule for our Spring 2020 Maintenance which is scheduled to occur from …

Jan 21, 2020 RCC Receives "Gold" Level Sustainability Accolade

Thanks mainly to the efforts of Mitch Gans, RCC has achieved the highest level "Gold" certification …

Nov 13, 2019 Upcoming Maintenance: May, 2020

Starting on Monday, May 4, we will bring down the HPC cluster to perform critical upgrades and other…

Oct 22, 2019 Prasad Maddumage featured in FSU ITS "We are IT"

Our very own Software Application Specialist, Prasad Maddumage, was featured in a personal profile o…

Sep 3, 2019 Omni-Path Upgrade to InfiniBand

We are currently working on upgrading our Omni-Path infrastructure to InfiniBand. This will improve …

Aug 29, 2019 New nodes are on their way

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Upcoming Events

Jan 28 Data @ Dirac: Introduction to HPC & the Slurm workload manager Presented by the RCC
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 cu…
Feb 11 Data @ Dirac: Introduction to Python
Presented by the RCC Python is a general purpose and high level open source programming language that can be used by students and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. It’s a popular lan…

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