Research Computing

Research Computing is the team inside IT Services that gives Georgia Southern researchers access to HPC and cloud research resources to advance their research needs. Whether you’re running simulations, working through massive datasets, or building models that need real horsepower, we help you move that work onto Talon – our high-performance computing cluster – and get it running faster.

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Getting Started With Talon

Ready to get started? Apply for access to the Talon HPC cluster below.

New to the HPC? Start here: our Logging In and Getting Started guide walks you through your first login and basic navigation.

For additional questions, submit a MyHelp ticket.

Available Resources

  • Our high-performance computing cluster, accessible through Talon OnDemand and with SLURM job scheduling
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  • An Azure cloud tenant for general-purpose research compute and storage.
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  • A CMMC Level 2 certified Azure cloud tenant built for DoD, DoE, and CUI research and data requirements.

How We Can Help

Talon HPC Cluster – Linux-based HPC cluster, for general-purpose computing – including support for unfunded research and academic projects.

Consultation – Not sure what you need yet? Talk to us before you submit a grant or funding request, and we’ll help you scope the right computing and data resources for your project.

Parallelization of Workloads – Parallel computing can dramatically speed up research by running processes simultaneously. We’ll look at your submission scripts and code to help optimize how your jobs run on the cluster.

Virtual Servers – Need dedicated server infrastructure for a research application? We can support that through our virtual server environment.

Data Storage – We can provide research data storage for use across the university.

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Our Mission

We’re here to make high-performance computing a real advantage for Georgia Southern’s researchers and students – giving faculty and students access to the computing, data, and visualization resources their research needs, and working alongside them on the technical side of their projects. 

“Simulations taking weeks to run now become days and hours. I really appreciate what you did.”

– JingJing Yin, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health