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. The warranty of the Summit cluster’s storage ended on September 30, 2022. The full sun-setting of the Summit system is yet to be finalized.

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 317 compute nodes and a total of 18,080 cores.

Alpine can be securely accessed anywhere, anytime using OpenOnDemand or ssh connectivity to the CURC system.

Total Core Count: 18,080

All nodes are available to all users. For full details about node access, please refer to the Alpine Node Access and FairShare policy.

Alpine Table of Contents

• Alpine Quick Start
• Alpine Hardware
• Slurm Directives Examples
• Alpine Software
• Alpine Allocations
• Moving From Summit
• Important Notes
• Alpine: condo FairShare and resource access

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).