Early adoption provides researchers with several benefits, including:

• The chance to get a jump start on using the new system with limited competition for resources.

• Prioritized support from ARCC staff during EAP.

• Exclusive reserved access to any approved resources over the course of the EAP.

• EAP users will incur no charges throughout the course of the program, and will be able to continue using MedicineBow incurring standard ARCC charges following the end of the program.

Researchers approved for the early access program will get access to their reserved share of 152 GPUs , 4224 CPUs, and 3PB of research data storage over the course of the program.

The new MedicineBow HPC environment includes the following hardware:

The total computational power available to the Medicine Bow cluster per year is as follows:

• 1,331,520 GPU hours

  • 11.86 petaflops @ fp32

  • 2.72 petaflops @ fp64

• 37,002,240 CPU hours

  • 8.24 petaflops @ fp32

  • 2.36 petaflops @ fp64

• 3 Petabytes available for research data storage

ARCC will accept applications through Friday May 17th, 2024. Applications are open to all scientific disciplines. To apply, please fill out an application through our portal, here.

The application form will require an abstract associated with your intended work, the technical requirements associated with any computational technologies (if needed), estimated compute hours and storage needs.

• Submission deadline: 06/03/2024

• Allocation Announcements: 07/15/2024

• New Project setup: 08/01/2024

Details of Large Allocation may be found at https://www.uwyo.edu/nwsc/allocations/large_allocations.html

• Large allocation requests can be in proposals in any area of research supported by the National Science Foundation in addition to areas of research of strategic importance to Wyoming.

• The requests will be evaluated either by the Wyoming Resource Allocation Panel (WRAP – research in Geosciences and Earth Sciences) or the Large Computing Allocation Panel (LCAP – other NSF-supported areas of research and areas of research of strategic importance to Wyoming)

HPC Cluster and Data Migrations

ARCC services will be undergoing substantial upgrades in the coming months. We are in the process of making our new HPC cluster MedicineBow (working name: Thunderer) and data storage (working name: Data) system available for ARCC users. These new systems will eventually replace our existing systems, Beartooth and Alcova. To find more detailed information about these changes, visit the following page: Upgrade and Expansion 2024 .
PI request and approval are required for completion of both migrations. Please review https://arccwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCUMENTAT/pages/2102722579 for a full list of important dates and https://arccwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCUMENTAT/pages/2099871826 for migration policies that may impact you and effect migration completions. Go-Live dates for Data and Thunderer are as follows.

June 1st, 2024: New storage system “Data” go-live.

July 1st, 2024: New HPC cluster MedicineBow (Working name: Thunderer) go-live.

Again, it is important that researchers review important dates and policies. Please review the pages linked above and contact arcc-help@uwyo.edu for any clarification, or with any questions or concerns.