As research becomes more compute intensive, ARCC has made high performance compute a core service. This core service is currently being performed by  The Teton Compute Environment, allowing researchers to perform computation-intensive analysis on large datasets. Using Teton, researchers have control over their data, projects, and collaborators. Built-in tools help users get up and running in a short amount of time, and the ability to request custom tools allows users to fine-tune their research procedures.

• See Citing Teton.

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Glossary

Training

Overview

The Teton Compute Environment, or Teton for short, is a high performance computing (HPC) cluster with over 500 compute nodes and a high performance data storage system. Teton was preceded by UWyo’s first community HPC cluster, Mount Moran, which went into service in 2012. The second generation of HPC at UWyo, Teton, first went into service in 2018 and is available to all research interests at UWyo. With over 1.2 PB of storage, Teton can accommodate some of the largest datasets. Isolated filesystems ensure that researchers have control of where their data are, and who can access it. Teton can be securely accessed anywhere, anytime with 98% expected uptime and SSH connectivity using UWyo two-factor authentication. No matter where you go, your research can go with you

Teton is an Intel x86_64 cluster connected via a Mellanox FDR/EDR InfiniBand and has a 1.3 PB IBM Spectrum Scale global parallel filesystem available to all nodes. The system requires UWYO two-factor authentication (2FA) for login via SSH. The default shell is BASH with Lmod modules system is leveraged for dynamic user environments to help switch software stacks rapidly and easily. The Slurm workload manager is employed to schedule jobs, provide submission limits, and implement fair share as well as provide the Quality of Service (QoS) levels for research groups who have invested in the cluster.

Teton has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) (https://doi.org/10.15786/M2FY47) and we request that all use of Teton appropriately acknowledges the system. Please see Citing Teton for more information.

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Project and Account Requests

For research projects, UWyo faculty members (Principal Investigators) can request a Project be created on Teton. PIs can then add access to the project for UWyo students, faculty and external collaborators. User Accounts on Teton require a valid UWyo e-mail address and a UWyo-Affiliated PI sponsor. UWyo faculty members can sponsor their own accounts, while students, post-doctoral researchers, or research associates must use their PI as their sponsor. Non-UWyo external collaborators must be sponsored by a current UWyo faculty member.

Follow this link Account Policy for additional information and policy statements on account usage. Use the link under "Account Requests" to request that either a project or user(s) be created or added. From this same page, you can request that users be added to an existing project.

Note, that for external collaborators a special UWYO account must be created by the ASO office before access can be granted to Teton. There is a one time $10 fee for having these accounts created. Please allow extra time for the ASO office to create the account.

Please go to this web page to request a project be set up, ARCC Access Request Form.

Once the form is submitted, and the information verified, the project and user account(s) will be created. Users will receive an email notification once a project has been created and/or when they are added to a project.

To request access for instructional use, send an email to arcc-info@uwyo.edu with the course number, section, and student list. If the PI prefers generic accounts can be created instead of providing a student list. Instructional accounts are usually valid for a single semester and access to the project is terminated at the beginning of the next semester.