Research Computing at West Virginia University

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West Virginia University Research Computing (WVU-RC) is a team inside WVU’s Research Office dedicated to supporting, enabling, and advancing computational research at WVU.

WVU Research Computing maintains a portfolio of infrastructure to support its mission. We maintain several High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters, from general-purpose to specialized ones, both on-premises and in the cloud. WVU Research Computing also provides other services such as a large research data storage facility called DataDepot, and a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for high-speed data transfers called WVU Research Exchange (REX).

In addition to maintaining these facilities, WVU Research Computing offers support, consulting, and training in areas of High-Performance Computing, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Parallel Programming.

The table below shows our portfolio of HPC resources (past and present):

HPC Portafolio at WVU Research Computing
Infraestructure/
HPC Clusters
Description
Compute
Nodes
CPU
Cores
Accelerators
GPUs
Harpers Ferry
(in production)
General Purpose HPC Cluster.
CPU Processors: 2X AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core
Servers provisioned: Oct 29, 2025

37

9472
None
Dolly Sods
(in production)
GPU Accelerated HPC Cluster.
CPU Processors: AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core Processor
AMD EPYC 7513 32-Core Processor

37

1248
155 NVIDIA GPUs
A30 (120)
A40 (19)
A100 (16)
WVCTSI Cluster
Secure Cluster
(in production)
HPC Cluster for use with
Protected Health Information (PHI)
HIPAA compliant

8

320
4 NVIDIA GPUs
Tesla V100S
Thorny Flat
Phase 0
(in production)
General-purpose HPC cluster.
CPU processors: Intel Skylake and Cascade Lake.
Installed at Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center.
Servers provisioned: Dec 14 2017

111

4232
21 NVIDIA GPUs
P6000 (21)
Thorny Flat
Big Mem
(to be relaunched in
2026)
General-purpose HPC cluster.
Intel processors with Skylake and Cascade Lake.
Installed at WVU’s Chemistry Research Laboratory (CRL281)

64

2560
None
Spruce Knob
(to be relaunched in
2026)
General-purpose HPC cluster first commissioned in 2017.
Heterogeneous cluster with Intel processors.
Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Broadwell.

120

3376
14/5 NVIDIA GPUs
Tesla K20m
Tesla K20Xm
GoFirst
(in production)
Virtual Infraestructure running on AWS.
Serves Business Data Analytics (BUDA) program.
Chambers College of Business and Economics.
Mountaineer
(decommissioned in
2018)
First centrally managed HPC Cluster for WVU.
CPUs from Intel Westmere microarchitecture (32 nm).

32

384
None

The contents of this website can be downloaded as a single PDF here: docs_hpc_wvu.pdf

There are several websites associated with WVU-RC activities, here is a list of the most relevant ones:

The official webpage in the Research Office portal about the Research Computing Division

WVU Research Computing - Research Office

The legacy documentation was a Wiki website that will continue to be online for a while

WVU Research Computing - Legacy Wiki

The HelpDesk ticket system

WVU Research Computing - HPC HelpDesk

If your research was possible thanks to the use of our clusters, please acknowledge the support using these comments:

For Thorny Flat:

“Computational resources were provided by the WVU Research Computing Thorny Flat HPC cluster, partly funded by NSF OAC-1726534.”

For Dolly Sods:

“Computational resources were provided by the WVU Research Computing Dolly Sods HPC cluster, which is funded in part by NSF OAC-2117575.”

To request help, create a new ticket on the Research Computing HPC HelpDesk web page. You are welcome to e-mail any member of the WVU-RC team directly, but since we are not always at our desk, the ticket system will guarantee that your support question will be seen by someone currently available.

Main Responsible for Documentation and Scientific Outreach

Guillermo Avendano-Franco

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