Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

Lighthouse Partnership with ALCF

UW is partnered with Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) through the . This initiative provides UW researchers with access to leadership class supercomputers and expert support to advance open science discovery.

 

Are you a good fit?  See below

 

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Learn More about Lighthouse

UW has received a discretionary allocation of computational resources through ALCF to support University of Wyoming researchers who would like to try out Argonne National Lab's for their work. 

 

Should you consider an account?

The University of Wyoming Lighthouse allocation is intended to serve as an on-ramp for researchers at UW who would like to test and experiment using Argonne National Lab computing resources.  Utilization of resources through Lighthouse would also help prepare researchers for their own major allocation awards through Dept. of Energy's  and  award programs.

 

Best fit for:

ALCF Resources are ideal for ARCC users who need to scale beyond what is often available on the ARCC's Medicinebow cluster, or those who need access to specialty AI accelerators available through their ALCF's .  


Are you interested in trying it out?
Get Started on the ALCF Lighthouse Allocation

Interested parties should first request to be added to the UW Lighthouse allocation as indicated below.  Instructions are dependent upon the requestors account status:

If you do not have an ALCF account

If you have an expired ALCF account 

If you have an active ALCF Account

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join the project
  1. Request an 
  2. Request to join lighthouse-uwyoming when asked which project to join
  1. Submit an  
  2. Request to join lighthouse-uwyoming when asked which project to join
  1. Login to your account and select  to submit a member request
  2. Search for lighthouse-uwyoming and request to join project


If you need to check the status of your account, please e-mail accounts@alcf.anl.gov 

 

 

 

What's available to UW ALCF Users?

Lighthouse-UWyoming project members are granted access to the associated allocation through which they can access .  This includes available allocated compute time and allocated storage space. 

The Lighthouse allocation is a shared allocation with a renewable amount of node hours and storage on all . The Lighthouse allocation is meant for Wyoming researchers looking to get on ALCF machines to test and port their code before requesting their own discretionary ALCF allocation. 

 

User Support

Users with general support questions on ALCF resources may contact arcc-help@uwyo.edu or lighthouse@alcf.anl.gov.  Additionally, the  offers additional training opportunities and . 

 

Click below for an overview of ALCF resources

ALCF resources include leadership-class supercomputing, visualization clusters, advanced data storage, high performance networking, and a wide variety of software tools and services to help users achieve their science goals.

Need more storage on ALCF?

ALCF users may request increases to their storage quotas by applying/requesting a new Eagle storage allocation here, or requesting an increase to the current quota by e-mailing ALCF Support. 

 

 

Click below to learn more about Argonne's newest Exascale Supercomputer, Aurora

Aurora is one of the world's first exascale supercomputers, able to perform over a quintillion calculations per second.  As one of the worlds fastest supercomputers, it gives the global science community a powerful new research tool with unprecedented abilities for simulations, AI, and data analysis.

 

 

Click below to be redirected to ALCF's Getting Started on Aurora Guide

This guide helps new users with logging in, and running jobs on Aurora.  Readers may also reference information about Aurora's hardware, and programming environment from here.  

Click below for a list of ALCF User Guides and Documentation

ALCF user-facing documentation source material is hosted on GitHub to facilitate contributions and issue reporting from the community.