Research Computing

SEAS has a centrally managed partition on Harvard’s Cannon supercomputer, which is available to SEAS researchers.

Get Started

• New users: FASRC has an Introduction to the FASRC Cluster.
• Experienced users: The FASRC User Quickstart Guide should be useful for getting started.

Documentation and Resources

• Specific information is available on running jobs on the SEAS partitions.
• Tips for Cannon will help most researchers learn about Slurm clusters like Cannon.
• Scientific Software for SEAS Affiliates covers software packages such as ABAQUS, Comsol, Matlab, Lumerical, and OpenFoam.
• Supercomputers Available to All Researchers details supercomputers any US-based researcher can use at no cost. Interested SEAS researchers should send an inquiry to ithelp@harvard.edu, mentioning SEAS Computing and referencing this page.
• FASRC provides guidance on mounting storage on desktop and laptop computers.

Data and Data Security

• Four data tiers, and costs, are explained on FASRC’s Storage Center.
• All data at Harvard is subject to the Harvard Research Data Security Policy and Harvard Data Security Levels.
• Cannon is only available for data that falls into Harvard level 1 and 2 data.
• If you have level 3 data, the FASSE cluster will be of interest.
• Options may be available for Level 4 and 5 data projects.

All Level 3, 4, and 5 data projects should be discussed with the SEAS Information Security and Privacy Officer.

Contact

FASRC provides help documentation for using Cannon and the FASSE cluster that can be found on FASRC's documentation pages. Additionally, FASRC holds office hours every Wednesday.