ARCC Wiki

UW ARCC: Primary Research Computing Facility at the University of Wyoming 

Welcome to The UW ARCC (Advanced Research Computing Center) Wiki

This wiki is intended to share information and best practices related to research computing among researchers and students.

How to Reach Us:

About ARCC:

E-Mail: arcc-help@uwyo.edu
Request our Services using our Service Portal
New Office Hours Schedule Begins 5/7/24:
Tues 11-1, Wed 12-2, still hosted over Zoom
Phone: (307) 766-3600

UW ARCC is the primary research computing facility for the University of Wyoming and our department is housed within the Division of Research and Economic Development.  Our expert staff are committed to providing the UW research community with access to specialized research computing infrastructure, knowledge, support, and a large range of scientific software pre-configured for your use. If you are new to ARCC, please begin with our “getting started” wiki pages.   

We manage and maintain and support all internally housed scientific computing resources including HPC and high performance data storage.  UW ARCC also aims to support all high performance computing resources available to any UW researcher.  This includes the support of External HPC Resources which includes but is not limited to Wyoming-NCAR Alliance Allocations through NWSC.  

A list of our internally offered services is detailed in our service list.

UW ARCC Core Service List


To provide the best research computing support, ARCC offers a number of core services below:

High Performance Computing (HPC)
We maintain and offer support for all HPC resources housed at UW

High Performance Computing (HPC)
We maintain and offer support for all HPC resources housed at UW

MedicineBow: ARCCs newest HPC service (available to UW July 1, 2024)

Beartooth: ARCC’s central HPC service (to be retired late 2024)

Wildiris: Specialty cluster to enable outreach between UW INBRE and Wyoming Community Colleges.

Loren: Specialty GPU based HPC cluster used by High Bay Research Group

Research Data Storage
ARCC offers research data storage as a core service

Research Data Storage
ARCC offers research data storage as a core service

ARCC Data Portal (“new” Alcova)

Alcova (Will be retired late 2024)

Pathfinder

Software Support Services
Assistance installing and troubleshooting software on our HPC platforms

Software Support Services
Assistance installing and troubleshooting software on our HPC platforms

Request software installs through our service portal

Request assistance migrating between our HPC resources and external HPC resources

Self guided help is available in our Wiki Documentation, Getting Started Pages, Glossary and FAQs.

User Support is available during scheduled office hours, by consultation or by request. We can be reached as indicated at the top of the page.

Linux Desktop Support (RedHat & Ubuntu distributions)

Proposal Development Assistance

Training

ARCC Investment Program: Inquire here or by e-mail @ arcc-help@uwyo.edu to invest in HPC resources.

Gitlab: A Collaborative code development service hosted on ARCC resources.

  • Request access here.

Globus: Cloud-Based SaaS (software as a service) used for reliable transfer, sharing, syncing, and publishing of large amounts of research data across HPC platforms. 

OnDemand/Southpass: Publicly accessible web based implementation of ARCC hosted HPC resources MedicineBow, Beartooth and WildIris

Including but not limited to Wyoming-NCAR Alliance Allocations, and Allocations on NWSC

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