RCS Home Page

Research Computing Services (RCS) is a group within the wider University of Calgary Information Technologies team that plans, manages, and supports high performance computing (HPC) systems in use by researchers throughout the University of Calgary. Our primary focus is to meet the increasing demand for engineering and scientific computation by offering a wide range of specialized services to help researchers solve highly complex real-world problems or run large scale computationally intensive workloads on our high-end HPC resources.

This RCS Wiki contains technical documentation for use by users of HPC systems operated by RCS and is a replacement for the old unmaintained HPC website at https://hpc.ucalgary.ca/.

Contact us for support

Find us at G204Z (Open in UC Interactive Room Finder)

• For general inquiries, please email: support@hpc.ucalgary.ca
• For Compute Canada specific questions: support@computecanada.ca

RCS has an office at the Foothills campus located at HSC B200D and can be reached via the IT reception on the main floor at G204Z next to the University bookstore. If you would like to have a face-to-face meeting with an analyst, please contact us via email to arrange an appointment beforehand.

Clusters

RCS manages various high performance computing clusters for the University of Calgary. Resources for each of the clusters are listed below.

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ARC - Advanced Research Computing

ARC is a general purpose cluster for University of Calgary researchers.

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• General Cluster Guidelines and Policies
• ARC Cluster Guide
• Managing software on ARC
• Gaussian on ARC -- How to use Gaussian 16 on ARC.
• Apache Spark on ARC

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TALC - Teaching And Learning Computing

TALC is a cluster to support academic courses and workshops.

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• General Cluster Guidelines and Policies
• TALC Cluster Guide
• TALC Terms of Use
• List of courses on TALC

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MARC - Medical Advanced Research Computing

MARC is a specialized cluster for processing level 4 data.

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• General Cluster Guidelines and Policies
• MARC Cluster Guide
• MARC accounts

G

GLaDOS

GLaDOS is a researcher-owned compute cluster

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• General Cluster Guidelines and Policies
• GLaDOS cluster

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Helix

Helix is a specialized cluster for Cumming School of Medicine projects

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• General Cluster Guidelines and Policies
• Helix cluster

Software pages

• Managing software on ARC
• Using Conda (external link)
• Gaussian on ARC -- How to use Gaussian 16 on ARC.
• Apache Spark on ARC
• Jupyter Notebooks
• ARC Software pages

Running courses on HPC resources

• TALC - Teaching and Learning Cluster (TALC) is a cluster created by Research Computing Services to support academic courses and workshops.
• TALC Terms of Use - Terms of use to which TALC account holders must agree to use the cluster.
• List of courses on TALC - A list of current and historical courses taught using TALC.

Training

• HPC Linux topics - A list of topics on which RCS technical support staff can provide one-on-one or group training
• What is a scheduler?
• Running jobs
• Data storage options for UofC researchers
• How to transfer data

What's New

• CHGI Transition - Information on the current CHGI Transition