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Office of Research Computing

Statement for Proposals

BYU Researchers,

Please feel free to use the statements below in your research grant proposals. If you have questions or would like a signed letter of support on BYU letterhead, please contact me for details.

Ryan Cox

Letter of Research Support (updated January 2025)

To Whom It May Concern:

The Office of Research Computing provides computational resources for faculty and students at Brigham Young University (BYU). Our mission is to facilitate and enhance computationally intensive research at BYU by making available state-of-the-art high performance computing (HPC) resources to campus researchers. Resources are made available for free to researchers.

The Office of Research Computing maintains 618 compute nodes (servers) comprising 34,948 processor cores, 351 GPUs, and over 176 TB of memory. The following is a non-exhaustive list of generally available resources:

  • 4 nodes each with 8 x NVIDIA H200 GPUs (32 total H200 GPUs)
  • 4 nodes each with 4 x NVIDIA L40S GPUs (16 total L40S GPUs)
  • 2 NVIDIA Grace Hopper GH200 nodes (2 total H100 GPUs)
  • 40 nodes each with 4 x NVIDIA P100 GPUs (160 total P100 GPUs)
  • 136-node cluster (17,408 cores): Each node has dual 64-core AMD EPYC processors with 100 Gb/s InfiniBand
  • 256-node cluster (7,168 cores): Each node has dual 14-core Intel Broadwell processors, 128 GB of RAM, and 56 Gb/s InfiniBand

Additional resources include big memory nodes, as well as other smaller clusters and privately owned hardware. There are 16 NVIDIA H100 and 120 NVIDIA A100 GPUs that are privately-owned but available to any jobs that opt-in to preemption by the resource owners.

All resources are supported by over six petabytes of high performance storage. Additional resources are constantly being considered to keep up with research demands, storage requirements, and changes in technology.

Different researchers have varying degrees of need for HPC systems. Job scheduler policies strike a balance between the needs of the largest and smallest consumers.

The Office of Research Computing provides a secure environment for most protected data needs, such as for the processing of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Controls are aligned with the requirements of NIST SP 800-171, Level 2 of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), DFARS 252.204-7008 and 252.204-7012 clauses, as well as other standards. The environment also supports several export-control restrictions, including ITAR and "U.S. persons only" requirements. Protected data services are freely available to researchers after authorization is granted.

We invite all BYU faculty, students, and affiliated collaborators that have a need for computational resources to request an account.

Ryan Cox
Director of Research Computing
Brigham Young University