Supporting the Computational Science and Research Needs of Montana

Montana Tech's High Performance Computing (HPC) architecture debuted as the first HPC in Montana University System (MUS) and it has been designed to support collaborative research and instruction within Montana MUS. Funded by the Montana Department of Commerce as a MUS-wide initiative, this computing cluster is available to faculty, students, researchers, and public/private industry collaborators.

Montana Tech's HPC system is a small cluster consists of 26 nodes with 544 cores. The nodes are connected with 40 Gbps InfiniBand and have access to 91 TB storage systems. The theoretical peak performance of the entire cluster is about 14 TFLOPS.

Collaborations

Montana Tech currently pays for the system support. We hope current and future researchers will incorporate the facilities into their grant proposals to fund system expansion and future support. Researchers can also propose infrastructure expansions, if funding is available.

Learn more about grant information.

Recent Uses

  • Image Processing
  • Multiphysics Simulations
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Statistical Simulations
  • Gene Analysis
  • Teaching

What's New

  • 05/01/2023: Software will be reinstalled. User accounts will be recovered upon request.
  • 03/31/2023: HPC system upgraded to Rocky Linux 8 + Warewulf (stateless) from CentOS7 + xCAT (stateful).
  • 03/05/2020: We have migrated to SLURM from Torque/Moab. Documentation will be updated.
  • 09/01/2019: Four new compute nodes featuring the latest Xeon Platinum processors have been installed.
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Cyberinfrastructure

See more information about the HPC cluster.

Featured Research

See some research projects that have utilized our HPC system.

More Computing Resources

See what other HPC resources are available.

Documentations
Getting Started

Learn how to get set up to use Montana Tech's HPC cluster.

Available Software

Here are some software installed in the system-wide location.

Opportunities

Learn more about workshops, research intern opportunists on HPC or computational science at other universities/labs, as well as some conference information.

Copper Server

The copper server is a stand-alone server funded by ARL research grant. It is currently mostly used for ARL research tasks' needs, like Comsol, Matlab, ANSYS etc.

Questions?

If you have questions or want access to the HPC, please reach out to Jeff Braun at jbraun@mtech.edu or Bowen Deng at bdeng1@mtech.edu, For a new account, please complete the form.