Introduction: This workshop will go over the NWSC, an External HPC resources frequently used by UW researchers. We will cover how to get access NWSC, and how to move your current HPC knowledge and project work to NWSC resources.
Course Goals:
Give guidance on how to get access NWSC.
Provide guidance for how to migrate your work from ARCC HPCs to NWSC .
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NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center
NCAR entered into an agreement with the University of Wyoming to provide allocations to researchers. More information about the Wyoming-NCAR alliance (NWSC) may be found here at UW’s NWSC page
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The University of Wyoming entered into a partnership with NCAR and researchers may apply for two types of allocations:
Start up or Educational Allocations
Large Computing Allocations
Common External HPC Resources
Below is a list of commonly utilized HPC Resources in which UW has entered into HPC Use Agreements:
NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center
Argonne National Labs, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)ANL (Argonne National Labs) work with UW to offer computational resources to UW researchers through the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Lighthouse Initiative.
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Resource List
The Lighthouse Initiative supports applications running on the following ALCF Systems:
Polaris: a 560 node HPE Apollo 6500 Gen 10+ based supercomputer for parallel computing tasks.
Graphcore: An IPU processor architecture designed for AI workloads.
Sambanova: Designed for efficiency, scaling and performance.
Groq: AI Testbed for AI acceleration with high speed chip-to-chip connections.
Cerebras: HPC resource designed to handle training of LLMs.
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ANL’s Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility providing supercomputing resources and expertise to the research community.
Requesting Resources
UW Users may request space on our UW allocation through Faculty Director for Computing Resources, Dr. Suresh Muknahallipatna by e-mailing him directly at sureshm@uwyo.edu. General Account and Project documentation may be found here.
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Getting Help on ALCF resources
ALCF users with active accounts and allocations may go to the ALCF Support Center to access their user documentation.
User authentication information for ALCF resources is available here.
New ALCF users may find helpful documentation at their New User Guide
Getting help from ARCC with Migration
If you know you’ll need help moving your data and software to Argonne HPC Resources, please reach out to UW ARCC at arcc-help@uwyo.edu to request assistance.