Research Computing

IT’s Research Computing (RC) team works to identify research needs across the university and aims to provide comprehensive and innovative services and infrastructure to further research and meet our vision set by the Mines@150 strategic plan.

CyberInfrastructure and Advanced Research Computing

IT’s Research Computing (RC) team works to identify research needs across the university and aims to provide comprehensive and innovative services and infrastructure to further research and meet our vision set by the Mines@150 strategic plan.

What We Do

High Performance Computing

Inspire Mines’ HPC research community with leading edge resources, innovations and knowledgeable and experience staff
Facilitate Mines’ research to be as productive and efficient as possible
Provide HPC Education and Outreach for current and future researchers at Mines to leverage computing to their fullest extent

Cyberinfrastructure

Facilitate data management and workflow assistance to researchers at Mines
Provide large-scale storage infrastructure, eg. Orebits Storage Platform
Enable 10GB file-transfer through grid-FTP using Globus connection service.

Scientific Visualization

Develop visualization workflows including animation and movie development support
Expand HPC visualization interfaces and software support for post-processing large datasets
Provide consultation services to accessing post-processing software for testing and development

Upcoming Services

Edgar Mine

The Research Support Services group, funded by NSF award #1925747, will architect and deploy state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure for Mines’ Edgar Experimental Mine. You can learn more about this initiative here.

Workshops

The HPC group at Mines is regularly holding workshops to better help you conduct your research. We have run workshops on Python for HPC, but plan to expand to cover topics such as MPI, parallel and CUDA programming, and advanced job workflows. You can see more details on the Workshops page.

Open OnDemand

Open OnDemand is an easy-to-use scientific gateway service for web access to HPC’s, allowing easy deployment of graphical applications such as Matlab, Jupyter Notebooks and more. Learn more here. Coming soon to both our Wendian and Mio HPC systems.