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Using grant & Contract funds

While UFIT Research Computing equipment and services can be purchased with any type of funds, researchers will often wish to use funds provided by grants or contracts. View the guide on using grant and contract funds for more info on this topic.

UFIT Research Computing provides hardware and software services to the UF research community. Our efforts are focused on activities that depend on large-scale computing activities such as high-performance computing, high-throughput computing, and large data sets.

Benefits

Comprehensive support
Professional hardware maintenance
Software installation and support
Timely software patches and updates
24×7 system monitoring
Access to interactive hosts for testing
Ability to use more cores than purchased during periods of non-peak demand

Resources

Large compute cluster for high-performance and high-throughput computing
Fast storage for large data sets
Network connectivity via the high-speed Campus Research Network
System software, compilers, clustering software, and many open source applications
Machine room space, electrical power, and cooling

Software Documentation

Due to the ever-changing nature of software documentation, we maintain our information on a Wiki website for ease of making changes. Please see our documentation wiki for more instruction.

Note that we do not maintain full sets of software documentation on our website for this very same reason. The instructions held on our website are purely to provide an introduction to the software available, instruction on how to use the software on our cluster, and pointers to the main documentation for each software package as maintained by the makers of said software.

Using grant & Contract funds

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Resources

Software Documentation

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Campus

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