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Priority access to HPC resources is available under a “condo “condo model,” where faculty are able to purchase semi-dedicated nodes which get made available to all users when their lab members are not using them.
Under the condo model, faculty researchers fund the capital equipment costs of individual compute nodes, while the university funds the operating costs of running these nodes for five years. Faculty who purchase compute nodes receive access to equivalent resources at a higher priority than other researchers.
To be clear, researchers are not purchasing consistent access to a specific physical node. They are purchasing access to a node’s worth of specific (but interchangeable) resources. The faculty can designate others to receive access at the same priority level, such then designate others—such as their graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, etc.—to receive priority access to those resources.
How will my lab members access our
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node(s)?
Priority users will be given a custom QoS to access to priority resources. We use QoSs to govern who can access priority resources (a.k.a. Trackable RESources, or TRes). Please note that priority users will not be given separate partitions.
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