Current Status

The NMT HPC system was installed at the ITC data center in June 2025 and is currently in a testing phase to prepare it for broader campus usage.

Please look for announcements in the coming months regarding updated system timelines, training events, and integration of the computing system in proposals.

System Instructions and Resources

We are currently in the process of building the system documentation and usage instructions, please see the section below for how to contact us regarding system usage in the interim setup period.

System Overview

The High-Performance Computing system at New Mexico Tech – HPC@NMT – was established through a competitive National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (NSF-MRI) award (#2320162) awarded in 2023: The award, MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing System at New Mexico Tech, provides funding for both the HPC instrumentation framework and undergraduate participation in system administration.

The driving centerpiece of HPC@NMT will be the collaborative, transdisciplinary research that will result from having exponentially more resources available to our faculty and students. Over the course of the three year award, key research challenges the HPC system will be used to address include Seismogenic Processes and Hazards, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Materials Science, and Multiphysics Groundwater Transport, Characterization, and Mapping. NMT@HPC aims to continually expand the computational capabilities to adapt to the ever growing needs and challenges of our local, state and national stakeholders. Long-term, the HPC@NMT team also aims to leverage the HPC system to develop curriculum and certificate programs in research computing and HPC system administration.

System Hardware and Resources

The HPC system funded by the MRI is designed to meet the wide range of research computing needs across campus. Key features of the AMD-based system include three types of compute nodes (standard, high memory, GPU), a parallel file system, and fast internal communication. 

Research Computing Support Services

We will be onboarding users to the HPC systems individually during the Spring 2025 semester. If you have been given access to the system, please contact Dr. Tahiry Rajaonarison (tahiry.rajaonarison@nmt.edu) for any questions regarding system access and usage. We will begin a more general onboarding process over the course of the 2026 Summer and Fall semesters.

 

Statement of Acknowledgement 

If this you use this system as part of a research project, please acknowledge acknowledge it  in journal articles or other media outlets as: 

“ We are grateful for the computation time on the High Performance Computing resource at New Mexico Tech. HPC@NMT  was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award 2320162), and maintained by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. ”

 

Current HPC Committee