NCSA Allocations

Note

Allocation Information by Resource - Start here if you know which resource you want to use.

Allocation Information by Allocation Method - Explore the available allocation programs/methods.

NCSA XRAS portal guides:

• How to Request a New Allocation in the NCSA XRAS Portal

• How to Request an Extension or Supplement to an Allocation

NCSA Resources Summary

NCSA offers access to a variety of compute, storage, and support resources; browse the summary table to find the resource that best fits your needs.

NCSA Resources Summary

Name	Type	Target Users [1] [2]	Primary Use Cases	User Documentation and Support
Delta	HPC	Campus, UI System, National	CPU: General purpose computation Engineering modeling and simulation Data analysis and analytics GPU: Accelerated computation Transition from CPU-only to GPU-only or hybrid CPU-GPU models Machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow Visualization and ray tracing	Delta hardware/storage Accessing Delta Delta user documentation Delta user support
DeltaAI	HPC	Campus, UI System, National	Coming soon!	DeltaAI hardware/storage Accessing DeltaAI DeltaAI user documentation DeltaAI user support
Granite	Archive Storage	Campus, UI System, National, Industry	Store infrequently accessed data Disaster recovery Archive datasets	Granite hardware/storage Accessing Granite Granite user documentation Granite user support
HAL	HPC	Campus, UI System	Machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.	HAL hardware/storage Accessing HAL HAL user documentation HAL user support
Hydro	HPC	Campus, NFI	Priority use for NFI projects.	Hydro hardware/storage Accessing Hydro Hydro user documentation Hydro user support
Illinois Campus Cluster	HPC	Campus, UI System	Campus Cluster use cases.	Campus Cluster hardware/storage Accessing Campus Cluster Campus Cluster user documentation Campus Cluster user support
Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN)	JupyterLab	Campus	Coming soon!	ICRN hardware/storage Accessing ICRN ICRN user documentation ICRN user support
Illinois HTC	HTC	Campus, UI System	Coming soon!	Illinois HTC hardware/storage Accessing Illinois HTC Illinois HTC user documentation Illinois HTC user support
Innovative Systems Lab	Emerging Technology Exploration	Campus	Deploys, manages, and evaluates emerging hardware and software systems of interest to the NCSA and campus scientific computing community.	ISL info
Jade	ePHI/CUI Archive Storage	Campus, UI System, National, Industry	Store infrequently accessed data Archive datasets	Jade hardware/storage Accessing Jade Jade user documentation Jade user support
Nightingale	HIPAA HPC	Campus, UI System	Projects working with: HIPAA CUI Other protected or sensitive data	Nightingale hardware/storage Accessing Nightingale Nightingale user documentation Nightingale user support
Radiant	HPC	Campus	Radiant use cases.	Radiant hardware/storage Accessing Radiant Radiant user documentation Radiant user support
Research Computing Collaborative Services (RCCS)	Support	Campus	Coming Soon!	RCCS info
Taiga	Storage	Campus, UI System, National, Industry	Active Research and Project Data Visualization data	Taiga hardware/storage Accessing Taiga Taiga user documentation Taiga user support
vForge	HTC	Industry	Starting point for NCSA’s industry partners.	vForge hardware/storage Accessing vForge vForge user support

Footnotes

[1]

Campus - affiliates of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

UI System - affiliates of the University of Illinois System.

National - academic researchers outside of the University of Illinois System.

Industry - non-academic applications.

[2]

If you are interested in a resource but are outside of the target user group(s), please submit a support request to discuss your options.