The Hive cluster, operated by the High Performance Computing Core Facility (HPC@UCD) at the University of California, Davis, is a centrally managed, standardized compute cluster available to the research community across all schools on campus. As of June 2026, Hive comprises 84 nodes with a total of 8,288 CPU cores, 78.81 TB of RAM, and 29 GPUs. Storage is provided by a 10.4 PB Quobyte parallel file system, complemented by a 124 TB ZFS home-directory server on NVMe and a 1.7 PB near-line backup system. Jobs are managed by the Slurm scheduler, with access via SSH (SSH key or campus passphrase) to hive.hpc.ucdavis.edu, and accounts provisioned through the HiPPO portal (hippo.ucdavis.edu). Hive operates on a "condo" model that provides free baseline access to all UC Davis researchers alongside optional purchased priority capacity, and HPC@UCD provides full system administration, a help desk, office hours, training workshops, software support, and documentation. Hive is located alongside other university administrative assets in the campus data center.
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