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- Audience: Affiliate, Researcher, Staff, Student
- Service Category: Research Services
- Owner Team: Data Center Services
Q. What is the FAC technical architecture?
Here’s a visual diagram of the FAC’s architecture, highlighting components and workflows in computing operations.
Q. What is High-Performance Scratch Storage?
HPC environments can help you meet the growing demands of AI driven research. By investing in state-of-the-art hardware, HPC enables you to leverage high-performance computing and tackle your computationally intensive workloads. Available Summer 2025
High-Performance Scratch Storage: (used with HPC; purchased separately) provides immediate access to data with low latency, making it ideal for your high-performance workloads and real-time applications.
Scale up computing
- Dozens to hundreds of compute nodes
- Low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect to allow work to span nodes (InfiniBand)
- Low-latency shared storage
- Combine to allow jobs to span 100-1000s of CPU/GPU cores and TBs of memory
Batch oriented
- Scheduled jobs running over long periods
- Equitable allocation of resources
- Non-transactional, interactive but only through scheduling
Consulting
Consulting services are available to build environments and support researchers in adapting and optimizing research problems to make use of HPC resources at a rate of $140 an hour.
How does Core HPC and FAC work together?
Core HPC Technical Diagram
Q. What is Archive Storage?
Archive Storage, through Microsoft Azure, provides secure, scalable, and cost-effective cold storage for long-term retention. It integrates seamlessly with institutional workflows, supporting policy-based tiering for efficient data management while ensuring compliance and security for academic research.Archive Storage will offer seamless, high-speed data transfer with FAC Capacity Storage. Available Summer 2025