HPC
High Performance Computing
Our High Performance Computing (HPC) platform is available for all University of Calgary researchers and offers local, on-premises computing with high flexibility and analyst support. Our HPC resources supplement national HPC resources that you may have access to such as Compute Canada.
Research Computing Services operates multiple HPC clusters for different requirements. For research specific requirements, please consider ARC, MARC, and GLaDOS. For teaching specific requirements, please see TALC.
Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) cluster is a general purpose cluster for UCalgary researchers that features 16,000 cores, 20 GPUs, integrated to 6 petabytes of storage capacity.
Medical Advanced Research Computing (MARC)
The Medical Advanced Research Computing (MARC) cluster is a high performance/high throughput computational resource to process research data classified as Level 4. MARC is a general purpose, multiuser Linux computational cluster made up of multiple compute nodes to run jobs. Jobs can span more than one compute node if required.
GLaDOS
GLaDOS is a computing cluster procured through a collaboration of researchers in Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Geoscience and maintained by the Research Computing Services (RCS) group.
Teaching and Learning Cluster (TALC)
TALC is an HPC cluster created by Research Computing Services (RCS) in response to requests for a central computing resource to support academic courses and workshops offered at the University of Calgary. It is a complement to the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) cluster that is used for research, rather than educational purposes.