ITS works to promote and enhance research and high-performance computing (HPC) resources and capacities at Lafayette. The Research and HPC team provides both on-campus and web services to support faculty with computationally intensive research or teaching. These include an on-prem Firebird HPC cluster, Jupyter, and Posit Cloud services, together with support for research projects, software needs, and guidance with leveraging NSF-funded resources provided by ACCESS.
For more information, or to discuss your research and computational pedagogical needs, please contact the Help Desk at help@lafayette.edu and ask to be connected to the Research and High Performance Computing team.
Computational Cluster and Research Computing Services
General information about the Firebird high-performance computational cluster and research computing services.
Accessing HPC Systems
Information related to obtaining an Firebird HPC cluster account, logging in, copying files to/from it, etc.
HPC Software
An array of software is available for use on the Firebird HPC cluster, including Python, Jupyter Notebook, R, Gaussian, Stata, Mathematica, and more. Click here to see the list, as well as instructions for using them.
Jupyter Resources
The College provides access to Jupyter Notebook environments via Google Colab and JupyterHub.
Information on accessing and using Jupyter Resources
Posit Cloud
Posit is a web-based service that delivers the experience of RStudio in a web browser.
Information on accessing and using Posit Cloud
SLURM Tutorial
Basic information and tutorials for using the Slurm Workload Manager.
Information on cluster workload submission and the use of Slurm
ACCESS
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS).
Information on accessing and using ACCESS computing resources