IT Services

We provide specialist computing services for research projects needing high capacity systems.

In 2010 we introduced a new high performance computing environment into which research teams can add clusters of high-performance nodes. The environment provides a centrally-managed front-end system with local file storage which can be accessed from any node in the attached clusters.

The service is supported by a dedicated team within ITS who maintain the system and can advise research teams on best practice, simplifying the process to deploy new research facilities.

Research teams fund their own clusters within the environment and make a contribution towards the costs of the centralised facilities.

More information

• Presentation describing HPC facilities (Powerpoint 1.4MB, June 2011)
• Original proposal document (PDF 95k, May 2009)
• Updated requirements (PDF 43k, June 2009)
• Email the support team: researchsupport@its.sussex.ac.uk