External Resources

Compute resources

ACCESS https://allocations.access-ci.org/

https://allocations.access-ci.org/prepare-requests-overview#comparison-table

Note that Explore is available for graduate students and is suitable for graduate projects, benchmarking, code development and porting, similar small-scale uses. This can be up to 400,000 credits.

NCAR https://arc.ucar.edu/xras_submit/opportunities

  • Small allocation: U.S. university researchers who are supported by an NSF award can request an initial small allocation of up to 400,000 core-hours on Cheyenne. These allocations can be used to complete small projects or to conduct initial runs in preparation for submitting a request for a large allocation.

  • Exploratory: A graduate student, post-doctoral researcher, or new faculty member at a U.S. university can request a one-time allocation of up to 400,000 Cheyenne core-hours. These awards typically support dissertations, help foster early career research, or provide seed resources for pursuing funded research. An individual can request a new exploratory project at each stage of their career path. A new faculty member is any eligible researcher who has not previously had an NCAR allocation as a faculty member

  • Large

NCSA https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/illinois-computes/

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications supports Illinois researchers through Illinois Computes, a program offering computing and data storage resources, technical expertise and support services to researchers from domains across campus. They can cover a broad range of computing needs.

Data storage

Often publications require public availability of data and code. This requirement can be met with the Illinois Data Bank. The Illinois Data Bank is a public access repository for publishing research data from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

https://databank.illinois.edu/

The data bank provides a place to store published data:

  • that is open to anyone in the world.

  • receives a stable identifier (DOI) for easy reference and citation.

  • is readily available for anyone to access for a minimum of 5 years.

  • is located in a stable environment that complies with many funder and publisher requirements.