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UFIT Research Computing (RC) provides comprehensive high performance computing resources and user support for University of Florida researchers and their collaborators.
Computing resources The University of Florida HiPerGator is a supercomputing cluster with more than 100,000 CPU cores, over 1700 Nvidia GPUs, and many petabytes of high performance storage. It is also equipped with the latest generation of Intel and AMD processors as well as Nvidia GPUs including the world’s most advanced AI system - the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD. In addition, there are more than 1500 software tools, frameworks, and libraries installed on HiPerGator for users to conduct research in areas such as engineering, high energy physics, chemistry, bioinformatics, social sciences, and in machine learning and deep learning.
Research Computing also operates the HiPerGator-RV system for secure computing on restricted data such as export controlled and medical data. This system provides a FISMA Moderate (NIST 800-53) and NIST 800-171 compliant environment safeguarding user data.
User support Research Computing provides professional user support on the usage of HiPerGator. This includes online help and documentation, in-person and online training, office hours for walk-in support, a user support ticket system, and in-depth research project consulting. To facilitate the campus-wide AI initiative, the RC AI Support Team provides AI focused services in research, teaching and learning in a variety of AI topics at different levels. Grant proposal support is also available to help researchers preparing for their grants.