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Investing in our cluster and available resources increase UW’s overall HPC resource utilization for more efficient use of university-wide research computing dollars.
Overall node purchasing and sharing offers scaling benefits by reducing university-wide costs associated decentralized HPC infrastructure, maintenance, equipment, and support staff. As a researcher you would not need to investigate all components required to make a server work.
HPC Condominium Model
Our MedicineBow and Beartooth cluster clusters follows a condominium-style model of resource management. Investors, which are individual researchers or groups of researchers, work with us at ARCC to purchase compute nodes and storage. These resources are then installed in our cluster and administered by the ARCC system administrators.
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