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High-Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC) (CDM-014)

Summary 🟡 ?

  • Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
  • Sub-unit: School of Computing
  • Content Type: infrastructure
  • Campus/Location: Loop
  • Last Verified: August 20, 2026

Description & capabilities

University HPC cluster with GPU-accelerated nodes (NVIDIA H100 and A100 CDM AI Server), cloud/container support, and systems evaluation capabilities. Hosted on university research network and datacenter infrastructure (UNI-013).

Access status

  • Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
  • Rationale: HPCC is a School of Computing research cluster; account provisioning and eligibility are arranged through SoC/IT research computing staff — public site documents capabilities but not self-service signup.
  • Access URL: hpcc.cs.depaul.edu
  • Contact name: School of Computing (HPCC inquiries)
  • Contact email: cdm@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-06-30
  • Source URLs:
  • hpcc.cs.depaul.edu

Operational status

  • Status: impaired (Impaired service)
  • Meaning: Listed, but current evidence does not support treating it as a staffed, maintained user service.
  • Rationale: The public HPCC site still advertises a future launch ("Coming Fall 2025") as of August 2026 and does not document account provisioning, staffing, or operations. Grant materials describe GPU capacity (AGIF GRA-916), but there is no current public evidence of a staffed, maintained user service. Do not cite HPCC as available institutional HPC without confirming operations with the School of Computing.
  • Verification date: 2026-08-20
  • Evidence:
  • HPCC homepage still headed "Coming Fall 2025" (captured 2026-08-20); no account-request or operations documentation
  • AGIF award GRA-916 (DePaul High-Performance Compute Cloud, FY 2023-2024) names this infrastructure in the project title — does not document current staffing or user onboarding
  • Packet sources/inbox/2026-08-20-hpcc-operational-status/
  • Source URLs:
  • hpcc.cs.depaul.edu

Verification

  • Status: needs_review (?)
  • Confidence: 44/100
  • Rationale: HPCC public homepage still advertises 'Coming Fall 2025' (recaptured August 2026). Listing documentation remains weak. Usability as a staffed service is recorded on the operational-status layer (impaired), not by inflating this verification score.
  • Last verified: 2026-08-20
  • Evidence:
  • https://hpcc.cs.depaul.edu reachable (May 2026)
  • Homepage text: 'Coming Fall 2025' — no account-request or operations documentation (recaptured 2026-08-20)
  • Grant/map references describe H100/A100 capacity but not live user onboarding
  • AGIF appendix names DePaul High-Performance Compute Cloud — GRA-916; sources/inbox/2026-06-14-agif-reports-2018-2025/uploads/AGIF_Annual_Report2024_FINAL.pdf
  • Operational-status packet: sources/inbox/2026-08-20-hpcc-operational-status/ (status impaired; see data/resource_operational.yaml)

Equipment

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Category Specific equipment
GPU compute NVIDIA H100 NVL GPUs; CDM AI Server — 4× NVIDIA A100 GPUs (320 GB GPU memory); Ubuntu 20.04 with Lambda Stack (TensorFlow, PyTorch, CUDA, cuDNN); 64 CPU cores; 1 TB RAM; 7.7 TB NVMe
HPC and cloud infrastructure Hosted containers and VMs; Kubernetes / DevOps platforms (Docker, Argo CD, Flux); Systems Evaluation Lab (performance measurement)
Creative workstations GPU-capable research workstations (image analysis, model fitting, local ML pipeline testing)

Equipment access (via linked resources)

Resource Notes
UNI-013 Primary/secondary datacenters and campus research network (Internet2 / Starlight)
CDM-021 CDM Xeon server pool and department compute infrastructure

Source: HPCC official site; Facilities-DiaBalance CDM AI Server; grant GPU configs (May 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Supports AI Institute, Physics and other cross-college compute demand (e.g. closed-loop analysis pipelines paired with CSH-007 beamline instrumentation work). AGIF-funded DePaul High-Performance Compute Cloud initiative (GRA-916, GRL-018) documented in ORS AGIF appendix.

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Notes

Infrastructure entry. Internal AGIF award GRA-916 (DePaul High-Performance Compute Cloud, $300,000, FY 2023-2024) names this infrastructure in project title — see sources/inbox/2026-06-14-agif-reports-2018-2025/.