Research Computing

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Academic and Research Computing Services (ARCS) provides research computing services including high-performance computing (HPC), high-throughput computing (HTC), data intensive computing, Big Data analytics, large scale data storage resources, and other advanced digital services related to research activities.  

To help your research activities, we…

  • Suggest the right resources through one-on-one consultations
  • Provide workshops and training for scientific computing tools
  • Introduce emerging research computing resources
  • Plan the College’s research computing capacity for the future

Harvey Mudd College’s ACCESS (formerly XSEDE) Campus Champion provides expert support for accessing and utilizing HPC, HTC, and data-driven computing resources on national supercomputer centers through ACCESS. ARCS also helps set up virtual machines on cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and build local compute servers used for computational research.

Research Computing Showcase

  • Empowering Data Science Learning with RStudio Cloud in Bio 46
    In Fall 2022, Harvey Mudd College’s Biology Department partnered with the Research Data Scientist to integrate RStudio Cloud into Bio 46, a foundational biology course with over 120 students. The goal was to give students seamless access to a coding environment for data analysis and reproducible research.

Previous Research Computing Showcases

Research Computing Workshops and Trainings

We regularly offer the following workshops, but if there is anything you need help with please don’t hesitate to contact the HMC Helpdesk:

  • ACCESS HPC Workshops: Big Data Workshop
  • CIS Research Computing Workshop: R, MATLAB, Parallel Processing, Tableau

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Resources

ACCESS (formerly XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. HMC joined the ACCESS Campus Champions program in 2012 and has received over 2 million CPU core-hours on supercomputers that our faculty and students have been utilizing for testing their compute- and data-intensive applications.

Laguna, is a a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster launched in October 2024 by the SoCal Research Computing & Data Alliance, a collaboration of 12 academic institutions (including all the Claremont Colleges). Built with an NSF CC* grant, Laguna cluster is hosted at USC and is now available for faculty and students at HMC.