Office of Research Computing

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Welcome to the
Office of Research Computing

The Office of Research Computing provides free supercomputing resources to faculty and student researchers at BYU, as well as their collaborators.

622 servers. 35,444 processor cores. 367 GPUs. 188 TiB of RAM. Over six petabytes shared storage. Security for protected data.

Employees are available to help with new user training, workflow optimization, software installation, and general problem resolution.

Get Started

Need help? Come visit our office at 403 CB, open a ticket, or give us a call at (801) 422-3946.

The Basics

Use SSH to log into your account

An easy-to-use web portal for submitting and running graphical jobs

Learn several methods for securely transferring files to and from the supercomputers

View information about each of our clusters

Learn where store data and find out which spaces are backed up or not

Look up documentation for applications installed on our systems, as well as GPU information

Learn various Slurm commands for viewing and modifying your batch jobs

Create job scripts the easy way

See examples of several Slurm commands in action