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CHPC - Research Computing and Data Support for the University

In addition to deploying and operating high performance computational resources and providing advanced user support and training, CHPC serves as an expert team to broadly support the increasingly diverse research computing and data needs on campus. These needs include support for big data, big data movement, data analytics, security, virtual machines, Windows science application servers, protected environments for data mining and analysis of protected health information, and advanced networking.

If you are new to CHPC, the best place to start to get more information on CHPC resources and policies is our Getting Started page.

Upcoming Events:

CHPC Downtime: Tuesday March 5 starting at 7:30am

Posted February 8th, 2024


Two upcoming security related changes

Posted February 6th, 2024


Allocation Requests for Spring 2024 are Due March 1st, 2024

Posted February 1st, 2024


CHPC ANNOUNCEMENT: Change in top level home directory permission settings

Posted December 14th, 2023


CHPC Spring 2024 Presentation Schedule Now Available

CHPC PE DOWNTIME: Partial Protected Environment Downtime  -- Oct 24-25, 2023

Posted October 18th, 2023


CHPC INFORMATION: MATLAB and Ansys updates

Posted September 22, 2023


CHPC SECURITY REMINDER

Posted September 8th, 2023

CHPC is reaching out to remind our users of their responsibility to understand what the software being used is doing, especially software that you download, install, or compile yourself. Read More...

News History...

Sea level pressure analysis from the operational High Resolution Rapid Refresh at 1 PM March 14, 2017 with unusually low pressure associated with a major New England snowstorm

Efficient Storage and Data Mining of Atmospheric Model Output

By Brian Blaylock and John Horel

 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah

Our group … purchased 30TB in CHPC’s pando [archive storage] system to test its suitability for several research projects. We have relied extensively over the years on other CHPC storage media such as the tape archive system and currently have over 100TB of network file system disk storage. However, the pando system is beginning to meet several of our interwoven needs that are less practical using other data archival approaches: (1) efficient expandable storage for thousands of large data files; (2) data analysis using fast retrieval of user selectable byte-ranges within those data files; and (3) the ability to have the data accessible to the atmospheric science research community.

The CHPC pando storage archive has made it possible for us to efficiently archive, access, and analyze a large volume of atmospheric model output. Several researchers outside the University of Utah have already discovered its utility in the short time that the archive has been available.

Read the full article in the newsletter.

System Status

General Environment

last update: 2024-03-29 08:00:03
General Nodes
system cores % util.
kingspeak 532/972 54.73%
notchpeak 1949/3212 60.68%
lonepeak 3092/3140 98.47%
Owner/Restricted Nodes
system cores % util.
ash 768/1104 69.57%
notchpeak 6846/18300 37.41%
kingspeak 2180/5308 41.07%
lonepeak 336/416 80.77%

Protected Environment

last update: 2024-03-29 08:00:03
General Nodes
system cores % util.
redwood 441/616 71.59%
Owner/Restricted Nodes
system cores % util.
redwood 2116/5980 35.38%


Cluster Utilization

Last Updated: 2/20/24