General Information

Welcome to RDHPCS CommonDocs – Information and procedures that pertain across all RDHPCS systems.

The RDHPCS Maintenance Downtime Calendar has events for NESCC (Hera, HPSS, Mercury), Jet, Boulder and Princeton Bastions, and other RDHPCS system downtimes. View the Calendar

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Locations and Systems of the RDHPCS

The NOAA Information Technology Locations and Systems page gives some high technical and geographical information about NOAA’s High Performance Computing program.

RDHPCS System	Purpose	OCIO HPCC Info	RDHPCS Documentation
Gaea	Climate Modeling and Research System (CMRS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/gaea	Gaea User Guide
Hera	Predicting high-impact weather events	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/hera	Hera User Guide
Ursa	Predicting high-impact weather events	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/hera	Ursa User Guide
Jet	Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP)	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/jet	Jet User Guide
Mercury	Collaborative resource for data transfer	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/niagara	Mercury User Guide
Cloud	Platforms to create and use HPC computational clusters on an ad-hoc basis	https://www.noaa.gov/information-technology/hpcc	RDHPCS Cloud Computing
MSU-HPC Orion	Collaboration with Mississippi State University (MSU)	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/orion	MSU-HPC User Guide
MSU-HPC Hercules	Collaboration with Mississippi State University (MSU)	https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/orion	MSU-HPC User Guide

Bastion Hostnames

Please see the Bastion Hostnames section.