Computation

ACER provides a variety of research computing platforms to the UIC community. ACER runs multiple on-site platforms for a variety of HPC needs:

  • Traditional HPC built on industry-standard x86_64 architectures utilizing parallel processing running over InfiniBand interconnects.
  • High memory computing for jobs with large memory footprints utilizing up to ~1 TB RAM.
  • GPU computing is available for computation can exploit applications optimized for CUDA and OpenCL.

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Allows users to navigate a graphical user interface for popular analysis tools running on the Lakeshore cluster, including:

  • RStudio provides the RStudio graphical interface by Posit for the development and execution of R applications
  • Jupyter Notebooks provides a web-based environment for the development and execution of python applications
  • Matlab provides a graphical interface for the development and execution of matlab code

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    The Secure Computing Environment (SCE) provides fortified Windows and Linux virtual machines for applications operating on sensitive data; storage and network I/O is encrypted and restricted.