Through Lighthouse, faculty can place grant-required hardware in ARC’s high performance computing Slurm environment.
A subscription to Lighthouse provides access to the ARC HPC infrastructure—data center, staff, networking, storage, and basic software—except for the compute hardware.
Lighthouse is available for:
- Researchers who receive funds from external funding agencies for purchasing equipment.
- Researchers who have workflow and/or infrastructure needs that differ significantly from those that can be met by other ARC services (i.e. Great Lakes or Armis2).
The hardware added to Lighthouse is for the exclusive use of the research group that added it and will not be a part of the general Great Lakes cluster allocation pool. Lighthouse gives research groups the option of operating with access to commercially available software to be determined at the time of installation.