NOTS
NOTS (Night Owls Time-Sharing Service) is a general-purpose Intel-based cluster with both conventional and GPU processors. NOTS is designed for both high performance computing (HPC) and high throughput computing (HTC), and has 159 nodes interconnected with high-speed Ethernet and either Omni-Path or InfiniBand low-latency networking. An expansion in 2024 provided a significant boost in capacity and capability for CPU and GPU compute power, with a total of 88 million CPU core hours and 750 thousand GPU hours annually.
RANGE
RANGE (Rice AI Networked GPU Engine) is a next-generation NVIDIA GPU cluster designed to accelerate AI and data-driven research. It combines cutting-edge NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs with ultra-fast NVIDIA NDR networking for high-speed data transfer. RANGE includes access to the CRC's VAST high-performance data share and provides a comprehensive suite of AI/ML software tools with SLURM scheduling and LMOD environment management.
ARIES
Health ResearchThe ARIES (AMD Rice Epyc Supercomputer) cluster is a donation from AMD and intended for health research. It uses AMD GPUs providing 12 million CPU hours and 1.5 million GPU hours annually.
RAPID
RAPID (Rice Analysis Platform for Interactive Data) is a small GPU-only cluster with 80 Nvidia GPUs, and is set up for interactive compute jobs and container-based execution.
Shared High-Speed Storage
Several hundred terabytes of VAST-based high-performance scratch space are available across NOTS and RANGE clusters, ensuring rapid data access for compute jobs.