HPC-Lehigh Services

HPC Lehigh offers a variety of platforms and software for high performance computing. Users may choose from a range of services depending upon their requirements and interests.

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Service Level Basic

Service Level Enhanced-I

Service Level Enhanced-II


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Free access to Lehigh Application Farm (LEAF), Linux Workstations, University Wide Condor Pool. Access to Altair in addition to basic services. Exclusive access to 400+ cores of HPC Cluster (Inferno and Blaze), three Trit servers and Capella in addition to Enhanced-I services.
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Service Level Basic

Basic service level gives access to LEAF (Lehigh Application Farm), Linux Workstations located at public sites across the university and the University Wide Condor Pool that utilizes idle CPUs on public site PCs and workstations. This service is free and open to all students, faculty and staff. LEAF (Lehigh Application Farm) can be accessed through ssh using these instructions. Linux Workstations and University Condor Pool can be accessed interactively at their respective public sites. Linux Workstations can also be additionally accessed remotely using ssh. A valid Lehigh Network ID and password can be used to authenticate in each of these services.

Service Level Enhanced - I

This service level includes, in addition to the Basic services, access to the 32-core server Altair. This machine is reserved for users that truly need access to a large, multi-core, 64-bit based processor architecture with large shared memory needs. Even though the service is free, Justification of computing problems in 64-bit space will be required in order to be granted access to this hardware. Users may file a request by submitting this online form. All requests by students have to be approved by a faculty (advisor or sponsor). The compute server can be accessed remotely using ssh.

Service Level Enhanced - II

This service level includes, in addition to the Enhanced-I and Basic services, access to the 400+ cores on the HPC Cluster comprising of Inferno and Blaze, three 8-core servers Trit 1, Trit 2, and Trit 3 and 16-core server Capella. The service comes at a nominal charge of $300 per year. If accounts are needed for a class of students, then the fee will be $30 per user for the first 10 users and $5 for each additional user. Individual users may file a request by submitting this online form. All requests by students have to be approved by a faculty (advisor or sponsor). Requests for accounts for an academic class must be filed with Donna Cressman (dlc207@lehigh.edu). The cluster can be accessed remotely using ssh.