Case Western Reserve HPC

New to HPC?

• The best place to start is our general Quickstart.

• For faculty members, you can find additional information about setting up your account and membership at the Faculty Guide page.

• For staff or students, you can find additional information under the User Guide page.

Website Orientation

• Use keyword search at the top of the page (the lens button) for more specific use case.

• Check the HPC Cluster section for various topics on the HPC: from accessing the cluster with graphical interface to scheduling your jobs.

• We have Guides and Training to help you be more proficient in using the cluster and HPC resources provided by other organizations, particularly NSF.

• Please explore the site to learn how to find the software you need, learn about the Module System, and Job Submission.

• If you cannot find the information that you need, you can email us at hpc-supportATcase.edu

Logging Into the Cluster

To log into the research-focused Pioneer cluster, or the Markov cluster for course work, use either OnDemand, X2Go, or Terminals to access pioneer.case.edu or markov.case.edu using your CaseID and SSO password (sometimes with Duo authentication as well)

Cluster Highlights

• 250+ compute servers, including 60+ GPU nodes, and 7000+ processors.
  Check the details of the cluster nodes on the Resource View page

• Provisioned by xCAT, with the operating system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8/9

• Job scheduler: Slurm

• Compilers: Gnu, Intel, and PGI

• Apps: Matlab, Mathematica, NAMD, Gromacs, Gaussian, LAMMPS, Schrodinger, Ansys and more.

Managing Group Accounts and Membership

Visit the HPC's AMARA account management site  via any browser with Single Sign On + Duo authentication (no VPN required)  to 'apply for', or to manage a research group account. The website is only accessible to a faculty PI that wants to apply.  Existing users can access the portal to manage an account or check their resources.  You can get the overview of the various HPC/RCCI services, resources, information and price structure via our billing tool, iLAB.

Faculty:  Requesting HPC resources for Coursework?

Instructors, please use this form to help start the process of requesting cyberinfrastructure for class related work. 

Do you have a dataset with Personally Identifiable Information?

The Secure Research Environment (SRE) may suit your data storage needs. Information about research data with sensitive content is available at the SRE Site.

University Compliance Program

Please refer to the University Compliance Program for using HPC resources.