Research Computing and Data Support for the University Community

Welcome to the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) at the University of Utah. The CHPC is the university community’s home for research computing and data. Our vision is to support the ever-increasing—and increasingly diverse—computing needs of researchers. Whether you’re studying the structure and function of proteins, analyzing patterns in the formation of sea ice, or examining speech in audio recordings, the CHPC is here to help.

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Our services

HPC clusters

Run your research software on our high-performance computing systems

Machine learning and artificial intelligence resources

Make use of hardware and software for machine learning and artificial intelligence

Storage and data transfer

Choose the right type of storage for your research data and transfer your data to and from CHPC resources

Hosting

Host your virtual machine or scientific web application with us

Secure computing

Analyze your sensitive data in our secure research computing environments

Consultation

Get help from our staff scientists and engineers, who have experience performing computational research

Upcoming events

December 5

CHPC Virtual Office Hours

Friday, December 5, 2025, 12 – 1pm MST

December 12

CHPC Virtual Office Hours

Friday, December 12, 2025, 12 – 1pm MST

December 16

Downtime of all CHPC resources for core network replacement

Tuesday, December 16, 7:30am – Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 11:30pm MST

December 19

CHPC Virtual Office Hours

Friday, December 19, 2025, 12 – 1pm MST

March 9

Global Open OnDemand (GOOD) Conference

Monday, March 9 – Thursday, March 12, 2026

May 12

Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) HPC Symposium

Tuesday, May 12 – Thursday, May 14, 2026

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Recent updates

Downtime of all CHPC-managed systems on December 16 and 17

All systems managed by the Center for High Performance Computing will be temporarily taken offline on December 16 and 17, 2025.

CHPC AI assistant in testing

We have been developing an AI assistant that allows users to ask questions about our services and procedures. The assistant is available in a testing mode.

Global Open OnDemand (GOOD) Conference coming to the University of Utah in March 2026

The Global Open OnDemand Conference (GOOD) is coming to the University of Utah in March 2026.

CHPC presence at SC25

The CHPC was well represented at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25) in St. Louis, MO in November.

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Featured research by CHPC users

Brain white matter connection strength positively associated with movement speed during Archimedes spiral tracing task

Research by Sarah Cote¹, Marit Ruitenberg², Jos van der Geest³, Kevin Duff⁴, and Vincent Koppelmans⁵

¹Yeshiva University, New York, NY, US; ²Leiden University, the Netherlands; ³Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ⁴Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, US; ⁵University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US

Cote, Ruitenberg, van der Geest, Duff, and Koppelmans mapped brain white matter connections, finding that connection strength is positively associated with movement speed during an Archimedes spiral tracing task.

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Get in touch

If you have any questions or would like to chat about our services, please get in touch. Our dedicated team of scientists and engineers, system administrators, network engineers, software developers, security professionals, and students is always willing to help.

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