HiPerGator

Summary

HiPerGator is the University of Florida's premier supercomputing cluster, featuring the latest generation of processors, advanced GPUs, high-speed storage and nodes designed for memory-intensive computation. The cluster's high-performance storage systems are accessible through multiple interfaces, including Globus and other specialized tools.

UFIT Research Computing maintains HiPerGator's infrastructure and components, allowing researchers to focus on their work rather than hardware and software maintenance. Our team supports a wide range of widely used applications and are happy to evaluate additional software for UF's research needs. A summary of HiPerGator's history is available. 

UF received the first delivery of the NVIDIA DGX B200 in the world. With support from Mark III and NVIDIA, the fourth generation of HiPerGator was unveiled in October 2025. The $33 million purchase was a highly anticipated step in a long-standing engagement between NVIDIA and UF that has resulted in a comprehensive push to integrate AI education and research across every academic discipline at UF. 

Who can use HiPerGator? 

HiPerGator can be used by faculty and their students and researchers and their collaborators at all Florida colleges and universities for teaching and research using these options and procedures:

1. For teaching a class, allocations are free and they last one semester. See classroom support for detailed instructions.
2. For research, allocations can be purchased for periods ranging from three months to several years. The rates are listed on our price sheets.  
3. A three month trial allocation at no cost may be requested for developing a course in advance of teaching the course and to explore the use of high-performance computing for research. Faculty can file a trial allocation request. After the trial ends, please work with UFIT Research Computing staff to find the best way forward for continuing use of HiPerGator.
4. To learn about HiPerGator's capabilities, colleges and departments can request a free three month trial allocation shared between all faculty in the unit to get easy access for learning about HPC and preparing to include HPC in their courses at no cost to individual faculty.  

Faculty members must be HiPerGator investors, and all other users must be sponsored by faculty members with an active investment to receive access to UFIT’s high-performance computing resources. HiPerGator's operations and infrastructure has been operating successfully on this model since 2013 with significant investment from the Provost, the Vice President for Research and the CIO. 

HiPerGator Configuration

Rankings and Performance Benchmarks

Since its inception, HiPerGator has consistently ranked among the fastest supercomputers in higher education in the United States. 

As of 2025, in the TOP500, the TOP500 High-Performance Conjugate Gradient and the IO500, HiPerGator ranks the No. 1 fastest university-owned supercomputer in the U.S.

UF was also the only academic institution in the world to participate in the MLPerf® Training benchmarks, published by MLCommons®. The submission leveraged the newly completed fourth-generation installation of HiPerGator. Across all seven benchmarks tested, UF’s submissions consistently ranked among the top three performers. UF's results demonstrated readiness to support diverse and demanding AI training workloads across research, education and industry.

Contributions

HiPerGator is integral to advancing academic and research achievements, supporting a wide range of disciplines and driving significant advancements in teaching and research.

You can read more about the innovation and discovery HiPerGator enables on UFIT Research Computing's News and Features page. 

Last updated: April 2026