OVERVIEW

Maintaining our status as a nationally recognized public research university requires supporting the research community’s intensive computational initiatives by providing technical expertise and high-performance computing resources.

CURRENT STATE

• The UIT High Performance Computing (UIT-HPC) group provides infrastructure support and system administration to both computational and storage equipment for new clusters located in the RCDC (Research Computing Data Center) as well as legacy equipment housed in the University Colocation Center.
• UIT continues to integrate more closely with the Division of Research in evaluating grants which require High Performance Computing resources.

PATH TO SUCCESS

• Continue the partnership between UIT-HPC and HPE DSI (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute) to propel UH research by reducing barriers to entry for new researchers interested in High Performance Computing, especially those in less represented areas like arts/humanities, social sciences and business.
• Continue outreach of training programs to ease the onboarding process for users new to High Performance Computing. 

FY2025 INITIATIVES

• Continue working with the research community to evaluate new developments in hardware and software.
• Support the continued growth of the Cluster Partnership Program with the HPE DSI to provision resources from start-up funds and grants in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner within the existing public clusters at the University.
• Poll existing customer base to begin development of a proposal for the next generation HPE DSI research cluster.
• Enhance entry-level introductory course for new users of HPC resources.