✅ Yes if you are at UVA and need:

Rivanna HPC is a high-performance computing cluster that consists of thousands of processing cores, providing over 300 million calculations per second. This massive computational power enables researchers to simulate complex systems, analyze large datasets, and model intricate phenomena, which would be impossible or impractical on traditional computers.

🚀 Unlocking High-Performance Computing at UVA: Don't Sleep on the Rivanna Module System

If you are coming from a local machine, look into via the browser—it gives you a GUI interface for Jupyter Notebooks and RStudio running on the cluster. Game changer.

The RC (Research Computing) team also offers excellent office hours if you get stuck.

The Rivanna HPC cluster provides numerous benefits to researchers, including:

You can't just walk in. You need to either be on the UVA network or logged into the VPN. ssh yourID@rivanna.hpc.virginia.edu

– heavy users get lower priority over time. For most PIs, it’s balanced. Occasionally, preemptible queues ( turbo ) give faster turnaround but risk job killing.

Just got access to Rivanna and feeling overwhelmed by the command line? You aren't alone. Here is the "Too Long; Didn't Read" guide to getting your first job running on UVA's HPC cluster.

Rivanna uses SLURM. You don't run code directly on the login node (they will yell at you). You write a submission script (a .sbatch file).

If you're a UVA researcher interested in using Rivanna HPC, here's how to get started: