Alpine

On May 18, 2022, CU Research Computing released phase 1 of Alpine, the third generation CURC High-Performance Computing Cluster. Phase 2 was released in September 2022. Phase 3 was released in July 2023.

Overview

Alpine is the University of Colorado Boulder Research Computing’s third-generation High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. Alpine is a heterogeneous compute cluster currently composed of hardware provided from University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado State University, and Anschutz Medical Campus. Alpine currently offers 489 compute nodes, a total of 32,368 CPU cores, and numerous GPU computing options. Alpine can be securely accessed anywhere, anytime using Open OnDemand or ssh connectivity to the CURC system. All nodes are available to all users.

Alpine Table of Contents

• Alpine Quick Start
• Alpine Hardware
• Slurm Directive Examples
• Alpine Allocations

Alpine is jointly funded by the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Anschutz, Colorado State University, and the National Science Foundation (award 2201538).