Computing for STEM education and research in North Carolina
NCShare provides researchers and educators at participating institutions with no-cost high-performance computing (HPC) resources, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, supporting workloads ranging from interactive Jupyter and RStudio sessions to massively parallel workflows and GPU-accelerated AI.
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Get Access
Computing and storage are free for faculty, staff, and students at participating institutions.
- New users: sign up with your campus login
- Courses: Jupyter and RStudio containers
- GPUs: request H200 access
- Existing users: renew your account
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Get Started
- New to clusters? Start with Cluster Basics
- Log in with SSH or VS Code
- Use Jupyter and RStudio in the browser with OnDemand
- Set up Python with Miniforge, or use containers
- Submit Slurm jobs
- Move data with
scpandrsync
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AI on NCShare
Run AI agents, local LLMs, and GPU-heavy AI workloads.
- Run AI agents on compute nodes
- H200 GPUs and how to get access
- Local LLMs with Ollama or vLLM
- OpenCode and Codex CLI on NCShare
- AI use policy
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Quick Reference
Need help?
Start with your campus support contact. You can also email or book a one-on-one consultation with the NCShare team or interact with the community in our discussion forum.