Research and HPC
ITS works to promote and enhance research and high-performance computing (HPC) resources and capacities at Lafayette.
The Firebird service team provides services to support and facilitate computationally intensive research and teaching. These include a cross-institutional HPC cluster named Firebird, located on campus. Several Web services that deliver the development environments suitable to a variety of project needs, and guidance for leveraging NSF-funded national resources provided through ACCESS-CI.
For more information or to discuss your research and computational pedagogical needs, please contact the Lafayette Service Desk at help@lafayette.edu.
Firebird HPC and Research Computing Services
General information about the Firebird HPC cluster and research computing services.
Information on HPC and related services
Accessing Firebird HPC
Obtaining an HPC cluster account, logging in, transferring files, etc.
Information on accessing the Firebird HPC cluster
HPC Software
The array of software available on the Firebird HPC cluster. Click here to see the list and instructions for use.
Information on the available parallelized software
Jupyter Resources
How to access Jupyter Notebook environments using Google Colab and JupyterHub.
Information on accessing and using Jupyter resources
Posit Cloud
Posit Cloud is a Web-based service that delivers the experience of RStudio using your Web browser.
Information on accessing and using Posit Cloud
SLURM Tutorial
Information and tutorials for using Firebird's workload manager.
Information on HPC workload submission through Slurm
ACCESS
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS).
Information on requesting and using ACCESS resources