High Performance Computing

Louisiana State University

In an effort to advance research and optimize user service, LSU's Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) and Information Technology Services (ITS) joined forces to create a support structure focused on expertise in high performance computing. Known as HPC@LSU, this organization maintains a premier computing environment, consisting of human, hardware, and software resources, for cutting edge, cross-disciplinary computational research. It's services are available to all users of HPC systems under it's management. This currently includes systems on the LSU campus and the Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure (LONI) HPC systems.

Through this site, researchers can review the systems and services that are available, open and manage system user accounts and service unit allocations, find documentation and training materials, and obtain the customer service and support needed to effectly conduct computational studies on the systems. By virtue of it's high profile operations, HPC@LSU, helps positions Louisiana as a national leader, not only in deploying the most progressive high-tech infrastructure, but also in advancing it for scientific, engineering, arts, and business applications. HPC@LSU is focused on building the current system modernization momentum to further strengthen Louisiana's intellectual capital.

Upcoming Events

Resources

HPC@LSU provides computational resources to the LSU campus and LONI members statewide. Provided services, such as the help desk and consulting, are available to all supported users. Online training sessions and and other education resources are available to all. Click Here to learn more about available resources.

Users

LSU HPC resources are available to all LSU Faculty and their affiliates while LONI resources are available to all LONI Member Institution Faculty and their affilates. Click Here to learn about account policies.

HPC@LSU conducts weekly system status and information meetings, to which users are invited. Click Here for more information.

Documentation & Help Desk

User Guides for all HPC resources are provided Here.

Detailed guides for all software installed on HPC clusters as well as example scripts are provided here. Installed software is listed by name, type and cluster.

A Help Desk and other support services are also provided.Read More

Training

HPC@LSU offers a sequence of tutorials every semester.

1. July 23,2025: Basic Shell Scripting

Topic	Basic Shell Scripting
Date	July 23,2025
Time	9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place	Zoom Online
Description	For anyone who works in a Linux/Unix environment, a working knowledge of shell scripting is essential and will boost their efficiency and productivity tremendously. For this tutorial, we will focus on bash as it is one of the most popular shells. This tutorial will include topics such as creating simple bash scripts, flow control, command line arguments, regex, grep, awk and sed. This is a practical tutorial, so we will provide examples and/or hands-on exercises for most of the covered materials. Prerequisites LONI or LSU HPC account Familiarity with Linux/Unix Editors such as vi or emacs SSH client such as Putty for Windows Slides Downloads
Registration	Click here

The tutorials cover Linux/Unix, parallel programming for HPC systems, in-depth application coverage, and ... Read More