Environment
Advanced Research Computing (ARC) high-performance computing, research storage, and high-security computing environments.
Issue
University members with active affiliations need information on available public accounts and research computing service support provided by the university and their affiliated colleges and schools.
Resolution
Review these programs for ways to access Advanced Research Computing (ARC) services that are provided by the university for university members, or are full-cost-covered programs from college-affiliated research computing investments, or are cost-shared with college-affiliated investment programs.
Course accounts
Course instructors or facilitators can request a course computing account from Advanced Research Computing (ARC).
Request a high-performance computing course account.
University of Michigan Research Computing Package program
The U-M RCP program is how the university expects every researcher and PhD student will have access to Advanced Research Computing (ARC) services. This program allows eligible university members to select annual allocations of ARC high-performance computing, research storage, and high-security computing environment services. These are university-covered computing services, with no cost to anyone eligible who enrolls. If an individual researcher is not themselves eligible, they should be working with a faculty member or Principal Investigator who is program-eligible.
Learn more about the U-M RCP program
Public accounts
Public accounts are accounts that are available to university members who have an affiliation with a college or school that has decided to dedicate funding to provide their members with basic access to high-performance computing, in support of learning how to use these services or running tests ahead of work submission. Public account access is currently available to anyone with a College of Engineering or LSA affiliation.
Reach out to ARC directly if you already have a cluster login for the Great Lakes cluster, you have an active affiliation with CoE or LSA, but you do not see access to a public account.
Create or check on support requests here https://arc.umich.edu/get-help/ or by directly emailing arc-support@umich.edu
Learn more about the College of Engineering shared account.
Learn more about LSA public accounts.
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts supports the research computing needs of its faculty, researchers, and students with LSA public accounts, through cost-sharing for ARC high-performance computing services, and also LSA-covered increases to ARC research storage services. Reach out to ARC directly with any questions about eligibility or to request enrollment.
Learn more about LSA cost-sharing for ARC high-performance computing services
Learn more about LSA coverage (no-cost) increases to ARC research storage services
Create or check on support requests here https://arc.umich.edu/get-help/ or by directly emailing arc-support@umich.edu.
College of Engineering
The College of Engineering supports the research computing needs of its faculty, researchers, and students with the College of Engineering shared public Great Lakes account and the Michigan Engineering Research Computing Funding program.
Learn more about the Michigan Engineering Research Computing Funding program
Reach out to ARC directly with any questions about eligibility or to request enrollment.
Create or check on support requests here https://arc.umich.edu/get-help/ or by directly emailing arc-support@umich.edu.
Michigan Medicine
Michigan Medicine supports the research computing needs of its faculty, researchers, scientific cores, interdisciplinary centers and institutes, and collaborative groups, with the Michigan Medicine Research Computing Investment program (MMRCI). This program provides additional full-cost-covered allocations of ARC services, that include high-performance computing, storage services, and high-security computing environments, to eligible Michigan Medicine researchers and groups.
Learn more about the Michigan Medicine Research Computing Investment program (MMRCI)
Reach out to ARC directly to check MMRCI eligibility and request enrollment.
Create or check on support requests here https://arc.umich.edu/get-help/ or by directly emailing arc-support@umich.edu.
School of Public Health
The School of Public Health offers an 80% cost-share for Great Lakes or Armis2 computing accounts. Reach out to ARC directly to request an 80% cost-shared account.
Create or check on support requests here https://arc.umich.edu/get-help/ or by directly emailing arc-support@umich.edu
ARC site pages:
ACCESS program
The federal ACCESS program from the National Science Foundation provides research computing access to researchers and educators who need or would benefit from this additional access to research computing resources.
Learn more about ARC support for ACCESS
Learn more about ACCESS
Additional Information
A specific resource from an ARC (Advanced Research Computing) service is for example a storage volume or a computing (Slurm) account.
If you need to access specific ARC resources such as a computing (Slurm) account for a project or class, or a storage volume:
- Contact the owner of that resource, or an ARC project administrator that has been designated by the owner, and ask them to grant you access.
- Project owners and their designated administrators can manage resource access directly in the ARC project portal.
All access to ARC resources is restricted. Only the project owner (most often the individual faculty member or researcher who originally requested the service from ARC, and therefore "owns" that resource) or any ARC project administrators that the project owner may have designated, is authorized to grant access to an ARC service resource. They can do this directly with the ARC project portal.
To create a new research computing resource or modify an existing resource:
- Requests must come from the ARC project owner or one of their specifically designated administrators, and be made directly to ARC.
For any questions, support, or assistance with ARC services, please refer to ARC support documentation or reach out to ARC directly.
Create or check on support requests here https://arc.umich.edu/get-help/ or by directly emailing arc-support@umich.edu.
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