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title: "Welcome to the HPC Center (HPCC)"
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## Overview

The High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC) provides state-of-the-art research
computing infrastructure and training accessible to all UCR researchers and
affiliates at low cost. Currently, it supports over 150 research groups with
more than 800 active users. Its resources are also heavily used for instructing
undergraduate and graduate classes in a wide range of computational,
statistical, life science and engineering disciplines.  

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This year the HPCC was awarded an MRI equipment grant (#2215705) by NSF for the acquisition of a Big Data HPC Cluster in the total amount of $942,829. For details see <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215705&HistoricalAwards=false">here</a>.</li>
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### Quick start

The following lists the most frequently visted pages of the HPCC site. They can also be accessed via the navigation system outlined below.

#### Navigating and searching this site

+ __Top menu__ located in bar on top of each page provides links to the main content categories 
+ __Section menu__ to the left links to subpages of each main category 
+ __Table of content__ to the right links to sections within each page

#### Gain access

+ [User account creation](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/about/overview/access/) for accessing HPCC's infrastructure 
+ [Latest recharging rates](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/about/overview/rates/) 
+ [Log in instructions](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/manuals/access/login/)

#### HPC usage 

+ [Usage instructions](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/manuals/) are provided in the manual section 
+ To efficiently navigate the Manuals pages, use the [Manual dropdown](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ucr-hpcc/ucr-hpcc.github.io/master/static/img/Manual_Navigation.png) in the menu bar on the top of this site.
+ [Event schedule](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/events/events/) for workshops and user meetings 

#### Infrastructure description 

+ [Infrastructure description](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/about/hardware/overview/) of HPCC's clusters and parallel storage systems
+ [Facility description document](https://goo.gl/43eOwQ) for grant applications and related purposes 

#### Help and contacts

+ For Support please consider asking on [our Forums](https://community.hpcc.ucr.edu/).
+ For requesting user accounts, password help, or software requests, please email [support@hpcc.ucr.edu](mailto:support@hpcc.ucr.edu).
+ You can also join our Slack at [ucr-hpcc](https://ucr-hpcc.slack.com/).
+ [Contact information](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/about/overview/people/)