About the Farm Cluster
Updated on 1/13/26
Farm is a Linux-based supercomputing cluster for the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Designed for both research and teaching, it is a significant campus resource primarily for CPU- and RAM-based computing. A wide selection of centrally managed software is available for research in genetics, proteomics, and related bioinformatics pipelines, weather and environmental modeling, fluid and particle simulations, geographic information systems (GIS) software, and more.
Access to Farm
All researchers in CA&ES are entitled to free access to the low partition, which has 102 nodes with a combined 14,720 CPUs, 66 TB of RAM, and 47 GPUs.
Each new user is allocated a 20 GB home directory.
If you want to use the CA&ES free tier, request access by selecting "publicgrp" from the list of sponsors through Hippo https://hippo.ucdavis.edu/Farm/.
Additional usage and access may be purchased by contributing to Farm through the node and/or storage rates or by purchasing equipment and contributing through the rack fee rate.
Contributors always receive priority access to the resources they purchased within one minute with the “one-minute guarantee.” Users can also request additional unused resources on a “fair share” basis in the low partition.
Farm Administration
The HPC Core Facility Team administers farm hardware and software. For information on buying into Farm, please see the rates page.