Resources
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (HPE DSI) owns and maintains several high performance computing (HPC) platforms that are housed in RCDC and managed by the UH Research Computing Center (RCC). We support researchers and projects by offering leading-edge computational resources. Capabilities include high-capacity storage and backup, parallel and big data applications, high-speed networking, and access to widely used software.
Computing Clusters
The HPE DSI has two large clusters (Carya and Sabine) to support scientific computation, big data applications, and large-scale data storage. All the nodes of each one of these clusters are connected by high-speed networks. Between local and shared disks, the clusters offer more than 1600 TBs of high-performance total disk space.
ARMADILLO
Armadillo is the University of Houston’s newest shared high-performance computing (HPC) resource, designed to support computationally intensive research in areas including artificial intelligence, data science, simulation, and scientific computing. Entering production in August 2026, Armadillo comprises 95 compute nodes, including CPU-only, GPU-accelerated, and large-memory nodes, delivering 6,080 CPU cores and 64 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. The system provides approximately 0.67 PFLOPS of theoretical FP64 and 8.0 PFLOPS of FP32 performance, supported by high-speed 200 Gb/s NDR InfiniBand networking and approximately 2.5 PB of shared HDD and 77 TB of flash storage. Armadillo is jointly operated by the HPE Data Science Institute and the Research Computing Center and expands UH’s capacity to support data-intensive and computationally demanding research.
SABINE
The Sabine cluster offers a total of 124 compute nodes with 3,472 cores and 25 TB of main memory within 116 HP Proliant XL170r nodes, and 8 HP ProLiant XL190r nodes. Interconnect: Sabine nodes are connected via Intel OmniPath switch with a 100 Gb Line Rate. Storage: Sabine has a shared ~725 TB NFS storage.
CARYA
The Carya cluster offers a total of 345 Hewlett Packard Enterprise compute HPE nodes, 40 Nvidia Ada Lovelace L40S GPUs and 64 Nvidia Volta V100 GPUs. Theoretical peak performance of over 1.7 Petaflops is provided by 17K CPU cores, 1,054 K GPU cores, 82 TB of main memory and 3.97 TB of high bandwidth GPU memory.Interconnect: Carya nodes are connected via Mellanox HDR Infiniband switch with 100Gb/s Line Rate.
Visualization Theater
HPE DSI is excited to open the doors of its new Data Visualization Laboratory located in the AERB building, 2nd floor, room 201, with dynamic displays, furniture and systems to support a variety of research, workshops, training, and presentation projects. You may book this facility by contacting HPE DSI via contact@hpedsi.uh.edu .
