Research Computing and Data Support for the University Community

Welcome to the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) at the University of Utah. The CHPC is the university community’s home for research computing and data. Our vision is to support the ever-increasing—and increasingly diverse—computing needs of researchers. Whether you’re studying the structure and function of proteins, analyzing patterns in the formation of sea ice, or examining speech in audio recordings, the CHPC is here to help.

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HPC clusters

Run your research software on our high-performance computing systems

Machine learning and artificial intelligence resources

Make use of hardware and software for machine learning and artificial intelligence

Storage and data transfer

Choose the right type of storage for your research data and transfer your data to and from CHPC resources

Hosting

Host your virtual machine or scientific web application with us

Secure computing

Analyze your sensitive data in our secure research computing environments

Consultation

Get help from our staff scientists and engineers, who have experience performing computational research

Upcoming events

July 2

Hands-on Introduction to R (session 2 of 3)

Thursday, July 2, 2026, 1 – 3pm MDT

July 7

Hands-on Introduction to R (session 3 of 3)

Tuesday, July 7, 2026, 1 – 3pm MDT

July 8

Meet Redtail: Utah's New AI Factory Supercomputer for Research and Education

Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 11am – 12pm MDT

July 9

Introduction to Parallel Computing

Thursday, July 9, 2026, 1 – 3pm MDT

July 10

Virtual Office Hours

Friday, July 10, 2026, 12 – 1pm MDT

July 14

Scheduled Maintenance on Clusters, Standalone Servers

Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 8am – 5pm MDT

July 16

Hands-on Guide to Starting Jobs with Slurm

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 1 – 2pm MDT

July 17

Virtual Office Hours

Friday, July 17, 2026, 12 – 1pm MDT

July 17

Using R at the CHPC

Friday, July 17, 2026, 1 – 2pm MDT

July 21

Workflows Using Snakemake

Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 1 – 3pm MDT

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Recent updates

Redtail takes flight: Meet Utah's new AI factory supercomputer for research and education

Utah's AI supercomputer, Redtail, is a statewide AI resource created to provide Utah's institutions of higher education, state organizations, and commercial sector with access to advanced computing resources, training, and support. Redtail will accelerate and support research, education, innovation, and AI workforce development across the state.

Redtail soars to the TOP500 and Green500 lists

The Redtail AI Factory reached rank 159 on the June 2026 TOP500 list, which ranks the world's most powerful computer systems. The platform also reached rank 76 on the Green500 list, which considers performance per unit of power. These rankings show that Redtail is not only a major investment in infrastructure, but also a major opportunity for Utahns to pursue ambitious research, education, and innovation with large-scale AI.

Scheduled maintenance of HPC clusters and standalone servers on July 14

The Center for High Performance Computing will have a scheduled downtime on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. The downtime will begin at 8:00 a.m. MDT and continue through the afternoon. It will affect high-performance computing clusters (granite, notchpeak, kingspeak, lonepeak, redwood; Open OnDemand) and standalone servers (including narwhal, beehive, and CryoSPARC and ColabFold servers) in the General and Protected Environments.

Kingspeak cluster retirement

In order to make space for the new hardware that is coming to the Granite cluster, the CHPC is planning to retire the Kingspeak cluster.

Isolating AI coding agents

The CHPC provides Text User Interfaces (TUIs) for popular AI agentic coding tools Claude, Codex, Antigravity, and OpenCode. In order to reduce the chances these agents take unintended actions, we will be implementing "sandboxing" of these agents via options in CHPC-installed module files in the near future.

Updates to events

Multiple updates: Research computing facilitators from the CHPC will join the office hours of the AI Office monthly, during the first session of the month, starting Friday, August 14; the Monthly AI Discussion Forum has been moved to the first Friday of the month; and a presentation scheduled for July 14 has been moved to July 17.

Awarded allocation for the summer quarter is now available

Allocation provides priority access to resources on some CHPC clusters. For details and instructions on applying for allocation, please see the documentation on allocations.

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Featured research by CHPC users

Fluid and Thermal Simulations with Slotted Cylinders

Research by Sultan Alshareef, Todd Harman, and Tim Ameel

University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering

Sultan Alshareef, Todd Harman, and Tim Ameel studied the characteristics of flow and heat transfer near slotted cylinders. The group used the notchpeak and ash clusters at the CHPC for numerical simulations. Alshareef was granted a patent related to this work.

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If you have any questions or would like to chat about our services, please get in touch. Our dedicated team of scientists and engineers, system administrators, network engineers, software developers, security professionals, and students is always willing to help.

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