Welcome to Scientific Computing at RU!

This website hosts documentation on HPC access and scientific computing resources avialable to the faculty and students of Reykjavik University. It is built by the people who use these resources. Join our chatroom (see below) and consider contributing content. Check the news for upcoming events.

Available compute resources

A non-exhaustive list of resources available to RU is below.

Local HPC cluster

• Documentation and access instructions.

IREI resources

Reykjavik University is a parner to the Icelandic Research e-Infratructure (IRE) project, and has access to its resources, including HPC clusters and the IREI cloud.

• See www.irei.is for more information.
• HPC documentation for the Elja cluster.
• Acquiring access to Elja.

Large-scale computing resources

Reykjavik University has access to large-scale computing resources at the LUMI supercomputer in Finland and other sites funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

Join our chatroom!

A Discord server was created as a support channel for everyone who deals with HPC or scientific computing at RU, including both students and faculty. The following invite link works without restructions and will be valid until 2026-06-09: https://discord.gg/TYNnBwgY. Please join now! After this time, a new method for joining the server will be provided.