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High Performance Computing (HPC) at Franklin & Marshall College

F&M offers High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to all faculty and student researches at no cost, and supports a wide variety of disciplines and departments. We also build out teaching and lab curriculum using HPC. In addition to on campus resources, we support access to NSF funded resources like ACCESS and OSPool. 

HPC Cluster

40 Compute nodes, 40 cores, 192GB memory with 2TB node scratch

2 GPU nodes, 4 x V100 (32GB), 4 x L40s (48GB)

36TB system scratch, 300TB ZFS research storage system, 100G Infiniband

Systems are used for labs, faculty and student research projects, Jupyterhub, Posit Workbench, WebWork, WebMO, etc 

Virtualization 

We have several hosts that we offer for virtualization where we can build out special projects that may not need a cluster or have specific CPU and memory requirements.

Jupyterhub

Jupyter notebooks are available for teaching and student use.

Posit Workbench

We offer a posit workbench server for instructors teaching R.