High performance computing

The University’s HPC (High Performance Computing) facility is a Linux-based computational cluster consisting of multiple servers configured to work together.

The cluster can perform large amounts of computational work in a relatively short space of time.

It’s useful for genomics, simulations, machine learning, molecular modelling, and large volume data analysis but can be used to speed up almost any computational job, particularly where you need to run something multiple times, for example repeat simulations.

Request HPC access

This service is available to:

  • staff and students
  • external collaborators working with staff

Request HPC access

Documentation

For help and documentation visit the HPC website at hpc.essex.ac.uk. You'll need to connect to the University's VPN service to access the HPC website.

Tech specs

  • 30 compute nodes with varying specs plus 13 GPU nodes each with between 1 and 4 NVidia GPUs (GTX1080Ti, RTX2080, and A30)
  • 3,248 CPUs for computation
  • linked by a private high speed network
  • RAM on the compute nodes ranges from 500Gb to 6Tb
  • hundreds of software applications and libraries installed (mostly open source though some proprietary software is also available)
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