Triton Shared Computing Cluster
Affordable Computing
Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) provides advanced computing resources and services to support the needs of the UC San Diego research community. In addition, researchers from other academic institutions and industries can also participate in this research computing program. The TSCC operates on two different computing models – Condo (a system purchase model) and Hotel (a pay-as-you-go model) to support a broad range of research computing workloads including traditional HPC, HTC, and emerging big data pipelines.
TSCC Program Features and Benefits
- Access to a much greater number of nodes than purchased
- Many installed software packages, or install your own
- Access to research and user communities who share tips and information
- Collaboration opportunities with SDSC cyberinfrastructure experts
- Housed in a secure, climate-controlled, energy-efficient data center
- Compute nodes professionally administered
- Non-competitive proposal system
- Shorter average wait times than national systems
TSCC Free Trial
For a free trial, email TSCC User Support and provide your:
- Name
- Contact Information
- Department
- Academic Institution or Industry
- Affiliation (grad student, post-doc, faculty, etc.)
- Brief description of your research and any software applications you plan to use
Note: New users will require a UCSD Active Directory (AD) username, or will need to provide a public key (emailed as an attached file) for secure login.
Trial accounts are 250 core-hours valid for 90 days.