The High Performance Computing systems are research resources, intended for testing and running large codes, parallel-processing codes, visualization and scientific applications. These systems are limited to research applications as defined in Section B-14 of Statute 42-5061 by the Arizona Legislature. All users are expected to use these resources accordingly and to use the U-system or other computing systems for non-research purposes.

Research Computing provides a wide variety of software and computing systems with different capabilities for different purposes. There are highly parallel shared memory systems and distributed memory systems (clusters); FPGA systems and some general purpose serial systems. Each of the systems are described in detail in the Computing Systems sections of this website.

The HPC computer systems are designed to be expandable. Research groups can choose to add components to these systems to leverage their IT investments into larger, highly parallel, centrally supported systems. This option is described on the Base-Plus webpage.