Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

Advanced Research Computing provides access to and support for advanced computing resources. ARC facilitates new and more powerful approaches to research challenges in fields ranging from physics to linguistics, and from engineering to medicine.

ARC Services

• High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Clusters
    • Great Lakes
      Great Lakes high performance computing (HPC) cluster is the shared, Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC) cluster available to all researchers at the University of Michigan.
    • Armis2
      The Armis2 HPC cluster, in conjunction with Turbo Research Storage, provides a secure, scalable, and distributed computing environment that aligns with HIPAA privacy standards.
    • Lighthouse
      Lighthouse allows researchers to add their hardware to existing ARC HPC resources to take advantage of data center and staff resources.
  • Getting Started
    • HPC User Login
    • HPC Slurm Account
    • Training Sessions
    • Student Access to HPC
  • Support
    • HPC Software
    • Globus File Transfer
    • ARC Research Purchased Hardware
• Storage Services
  • Turbo Research Storage
    Turbo is a high-capacity, reliable, secure, and fast storage solution that enables investigators across the University of Michigan to store and access data needed for their research.
  • Locker Large-File Storage
    Locker is a cost optimized, high-capacity, large file storage service for research data.
  • Data Den Research Archive
    Data Den is a low-cost, durable service for preserving electronic data generated from research activities that allows faculty to store large amounts of data without paying continual, monthly rates.
• Cloud Services
  • Secure Enclave Services
    The Secure Enclave Services provides U-M researchers with high-performance, secure, and flexible computing environments enabling the analysis of sensitive data sets restricted by federal privacy laws, proprietary access agreements, or confidentiality requirements.
• Scientific Computing & Research Consulting

U-M Research Computing Package

The University of Michigan Research Computing Package (UMRCP) is an investment into the U-M research community via simple, dependable access to several ITS-provided high-performance computing clusters and data storage resources. CPU credits are allocated on the Great Lakes and/or Armis2 clusters and can be used for standard, larger memory, or GPU resources.

• Resource Management Portal

Additional Information & Resources

• ARC Service Rates
• People of ARC
• ACCESS (National HPC & Cloud Resource)
• Facilities & Services Information for Grant Applications
• ARC Services for Those Leaving U-M