UK High Performance Computing

The University of Kentucky operates a High Performance Computing complex in support of its research and teaching missions. Located in McVey Hall, the complex is built from a large cluster of commodity servers, a high speed interconnect, a large unified file system, and a mass storage system.

For details on the hardware, please refer to the Hardware page.

Lipscomb High Performance Computing cluster (dlx.uky.edu)

For current information on problems and outages, please click on the News tab above.

Those new to the cluster should read the New User Guide.

Everyone should look at the Read Me First.

Scheduled Downtime

The Lipscomb cluster has quarterly outages scheduled for system maintenance, normally on the second Monday of January, April, July, and October, from 8AM until 4 PM. Schedule long running jobs accordingly. When no maintenance is required, outages will be canceled. See the motd or the HPC News Blog for details.

UK HPC Email List

Subscribe to the UK HPC Listserv List by sending email to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU with the single line SUB HPC in it. If you want to leave the list, send the single line UNSUB HPC.