Message from the Director
Dear all,
Dr. William L. Miller
Senior Director for Research Computing and Data
As we head into February, I would like to briefly update you on several major Research Computing and Data initiatives.
- HPE/NVIDIA Supercomputing resource. The $50 million Utah–Huntsman–HPE partnership to deploy an NVIDIA GPU-based supercomputing resource for state-wide research and innovation is well underway. The system is being built by HPE for deployment at a commercial data center south of SLC. CHPC and HPE teams are interacting to prepare the way for utilization of the system, anticipated in the late Spring/early Summer 2026 timeframe. CHPC's plans for allocation of the resource are being developed. We'll have more information to share in the coming months.
- Regulated Computing Environment (RCE). Onboarding is continuing onto CHPC's provisional Citadel system. Citadel provides the ability to conduct computational research with sensitive data under a provisional NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 regulation framework. Meanwhile, we anticipate initial development to start next week for CHPC's permanent RCE environment, a modern, scalable RCD platform that will eventually be fully Rev. 3 compliant.
- Secure Research Environment (SRE). At the January 27 VPR Town Hall, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced the SRE initiative to create a commercial cloud-based compliant environment to support certain research workloads. The VPR’s office anticipates that more information about the project will become available in the near future.
Best regards,
Bill
Senior Director for Research Computing and Data