The power of dragons
UAB secures more research funding every year than all other universities in Alabama combined, bringing high-impact innovations as well as jobs and a tremendous economic benefit to Birmingham, Alabama and beyond. UAB also houses Alabama’s fastest high-performance computer, which supports more than 1,000 researchers with research portfolios in excess of $125 million annually. These researchers are intent on changing the world.
Cheaha Supercomputer
UAB’s high performance supercomputer. Learn how it can help you and get started.
We’re here to help you
UAB IT Research Computing provides comprehensive support for researchers that use Cheaha, develop and maintain the cluster, and provide advanced software and consulting support if needed by researchers. Research Computing staff also maintain proposal support documentation, such as letters of commitment and facilities descriptions, to allow researchers a tighter focus on their projects.
Monthly Training
Second Wednesday of each month
1 - 2:30 pm, held virtually via YouTube.
- Job Scheduling
- GPU Computation
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Requesting Resources
Data Science Club
A weekly exploration of the practical use of data science
Fridays 9:30 - 10:30 am, held virtually via YouTube.
Latest on Research
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Suggest topics or offer to speak for Research Computing Days 2022
Research computing — and how it can empower researchers at UAB and beyond — will be front and center at the annual Research Computing Days, set for March 1-2, 2022, at UAB. As UAB IT plans for the event, we[…]
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Cheaha power increases again; research computing infrastructure undergoing transformationUAB IT is redesigning its research computing infrastructure to make it more robust and scalable, as well as more reliable, in response to an increase in demand for services. This comes after a $2 million investment that saw a 225%[…]
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UABFile migration on holdTHIS CHANGE HAS BEEN PUT ON HOLD. UAB IT is putting on hold the UABFile migration previously announced to a date in July. When the migration occurs, there will be a small window of downtime during which files will be[…]
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Cheaha user honored by AHA
Cheaha user Ramaraju Rudraraju, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, is part of the UAB team that won an American Heart Association prize for project mapping links between health disparities and COVID-19. Learn more at the UAB Reporter.
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