Description:
Alpine High‑Performance Computing (HPC) provides CU Anschutz researchers with access to Alpine, a large, centrally funded supercomputing cluster hosted by CU Boulder Research Computing. Alpine supports large scale data processing and computational analysis with more than 18,000 CPU cores, GPU resources, and high‑memory nodes. This environment is available at no cost to CU Anschutz faculty, researchers, staff and students and is designed to accelerate research productivity and multidisciplinary discovery.
Important: Alpine is not approved for HIPAA regulated or highly confidential data.
Who can use it:
Cost:
No cost for use of Alpine resources, except for optional paid PetaLibrary storage through CU Boulder Research Computing.
How to proceed:
- Click the Request HPC Access button on the right to begin the onboarding process for Alpine, including completion of the required End User Agreement and activation steps. You will be redirected to fill out an access form. When your access is approved, you will receive confirmation and instructions from CU Boulder Research Computing.
- Click the HPC Support button on the right if you need assistance with accessing Alpine, troubleshooting account or environment issues, understanding available compute resources, or identifying the right training and documentation. This button will open an email to rc-help@colorado.edu, and their team will assist you.
Additional resources:
Training Resources
Our partnership leverages the expertise of the CU Boulder Research Computing team to deliver a robust HPC environment including support and training. Visit the CU Boulder OIT Research Computing webpage to learn more about additional resources and documentation. The CURC has extensive how-to instructions and help documents including:
Training opportunities are available from the CURC team - visit their Events and Training webpage for an up-to-date schedule.
CU Anschutz HPC Learning Opportunities
- Office Hours
Office hours to discuss high performance computing topics are held by the CU Anschutz HPC Bioinformatics Technical Analyst from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. every Monday. Join the virtual meeting via Zoom and email hpcsupport@cuanschutz.edu with topic questions.
- GitHub Site
The CU Anschutz HPC GitHub site addresses the technical components of Alpine. The site provides a repository of CU Anschutz HPC content and Alpine related topics.
- Microsoft Teams Site
CU Anschutz offers an Alpine HPC Active Users Microsoft Teams site to share HPC resources, successes, and provide peer-to-peer help. Request to join the Teams site.
Community Portal
Additional resources also are available at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) community portal to learn about frequently asked research computing questions and shared best practices with other HPC users.