Opportunities

Why Use Derecho?

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) provides large-scale computing resources for university researchers. Used by over 1,500 researchers each year, NSF NCAR's flagship supercomputer, Derecho, delivers incredible computing power to solve complex problems in Earth system science. Derecho boasts 2,488 nodes with nearly 320,000 AMD EPYC cores and 82 nodes with 328 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Thanks to support from NSF, access to these Derecho and other resources is provided at no cost to you, your institution, or your research grants. University use of the NSF NCAR HPC environment is intended to support Earth system science and related research as well as classroom and training activities by researchers and educators at U.S. institutions. We also provide a range of opportunities to meet other needs of university researchers, including a Data Analysis opportunity for analyzing NSF NCAR-hosted data sets. For more on Derecho, see www.cisl.ucar.edu/capabilities/supercomputing.

Get Started with Derecho

To use Derecho, you must be a U.S.-based researcher, and your research must be in the Earth system sciences or related to Earth system science. Most projects require that you have an NSF award, but we can offer access to graduate students, postdocs, and new faculty without NSF funding. Classroom use requires no external funding, and data analysis activities can be supported by any funding source. Requests for small-scale projects can be submitted anytime and are usually handled within a few days. We accept requests for large-scale allocations every six months, in March and September. To get started, see arc.ucar.edu/docs/getting-started.