CAC Technical Documentation

These pages provide Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) users with technical documentation and other support information. If you want to join or start a CAC project, use the CAC Portal at portal.cac.cornell.edu to view, request, and manage resources. See CAC Portal instructions for the details. Please remember to acknowledge CAC support in your publications.

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Technical Documentation

General Computing Resources

• Red Cloud - on-demand cloud service
  • GPUs in Red Cloud
  • MATLAB Parallel Server in Red Cloud
• Seneca Cluster - a shared HPC cluster featuring AMD CPUs and Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs

High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters

• Getting Started - password rules, home directories, and more
• Private Clusters - clusters owned by research groups and maintained by CAC

Data Storage

• Archival Storage - how to use and sync directories to CAC Archival Storage

Data Transfer

• File Transfer using Globus - high speed file transfers to/from CAC

Training & Education

• CAC Training & Events - links to all training opportunities.
• CAC/WCM Scientific Computing Training Series - live Zoom
• CAC YouTube - recorded webinars and presentations
• Cornell Virtual Workshop - CAC self-paced training on HPC topics
• AI for Science Seminar Series - live Zoom and in-person
• Scientific Computing and Numerics Seminar - in-person
• Python for Data Science - Cornell Certificate Program
• Data Science with SQL and Tableau - Cornell Certificate Program
• Data Visualization in Tableau - Cornell Certificate Program