New archive storage offering and price update
Research Computing will deploy a new archive storage tier in fall 2026. Also, research group storage will not increase in price for calendar year 2027.
Recent News#
New Open OnDemand App
Research Computing has upgraded Open OnDemand with a new Open Job Composer app; a simpler, more powerful way to create and submit SLURM jobs.
New GPU nodes available
Two new GPU nodes are now available. Each new node has 128 cores, 750 GB of memory, 8 L40S GPUs, and a 7 TB local scratch disk. The new GPU nodes are part of the gpu partition and no special job configuration is needed. Please see the updated hardware and SLURM guides for details.
Expanded storage capacity
To meet growing storage needs, Research Computing recently expanded the /group file system. The total replicated capacity is now 2.6PB.
Storage price increase in 2025
Starting in 2025, the price for group storage will increase to $80/TB/year. However, because of the short notice, this new rate will apply only to new storage subscription payments made in 2025. All existing storage renewals processed in January 2025 will remain at the current rate of $60/TB/year.