Advanced Research Computing

ARC offers advanced computing services and a large software catalog to support a wide range of research and academic initiatives. Our three Linux-based clusters provide tailored environments for everything from large-scale simulations and data science to secure health data analysis, ensuring that researchers have the computational resources they need to excel.

• Great Lakes
  U-M’s flagship HPC resource, designed to support computationally intensive research across disciplines with a focus on simulations, data modeling, and AI.
• Armis2
  A secure HPC environment built to handle sensitive data, such as PHI, ensuring compliance with security standards for health and privacy-focused research.
• Lighthouse
  A flexible HPC environment for researchers requiring specialized computing resources not available on Great Lakes or Armis2, ideal for projects with unique computational needs.
• ARC Research Purchased Hardware
  Researchers with unique requirements not covered by the existing pay-as-you-go services can purchase hardware to be integrated into our high-performance computing clusters: Great Lakes, Armis2, and Lighthouse.
• ACCESS
  National HPC & Cloud Computing Resource.

ARC offers multiple storage solutions to serve researchers at U-M. Our services include high-performance storage for active research data, large-file storage for inactive data, replicated tape-backed archive storage for housing research data long term. Storing of sensitive data is supported through each of our storage services. For more information on storing sensitive data, refer to the Sensitive Data Guide.

• Turbo Research Storage
  High-capacity, high-performance network storage solution, providing secure and reliable data storage to researchers across the University of Michigan. Turbo is also designed to be highly flexible, handling small and large files efficiently.
• Locker Large-File Storage
  Cost-optimized, high-capacity, large-file storage service for research data. It provides high-performance capabilities for handling large files, enabling investigators at U-M to connect their data to the computing resources necessary for their research, including U-M’s high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
• Data Den Research Archive
  Disk-caching, tape-backed archive system for preserving electronic data generated from research activities. The largest storage system operated by ARC, it is a low-cost, highly durable system only available in replicated format and is best used for data that is set aside and is not being used at all, but still needs to be stored.

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

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