Cluster Computing Fees & Consulting Requests
Ways to access the Pronghorn high-performance computing cluster:
- No-fee student subsidy (subject to annual funding)
- No-fee limited-resource and testing queues via:
- Single node, 8-hour maximum runtime
- Maximum of 12 jobs queued
- For debugging: two nodes, 15-minute maximum runtime
- Primary pay-as-you-go queue:
- CPU: $0.01/CPU/hour
- GPU: $0.18/GPU/hour (each GPU node has four NVIDIA P100 devices attached with NVlink)
- Storage: $8/TB/Month
No-fee services are subsidized by the and Research & Innovation.
Email hpc@unr.edu to access Pronghorn as a University employee.
Business & Industry Affiliates
The University's shared HPC resources are available to business, industry and off-campus affiliates as well. Access by external (non-University) users whose work connects to the University, such as a research collaboration, is coordinated through the Nevada Center for Applied Research and charged at higher rates (to be negotiated).
Consulting from the High-Performance Computing Team
Our team is committed to collaborating with and advising researchers on complex research technology in areas including, but not limited to:
- High-performance computing
- Visualization
- High-speed networking
We also offer support for grant proposal submissions.
Request consulting
Submit inquiries for consulting to hpc@unr.edu. Please be prepared to provide a brief proposal that includes the following information:
- A list of researchers who will need accounts
- The faculty member(s) sponsoring the project
- The scientific background of your project for the proposed work
- The software pipeline for your project
- Programming language(s) used
- Parallelization mechanisms, such as MPI, OpenMP, naive parallel
- Required libraries
- Number of concurrent CPUs per job
- RAM per job
- Total disk space