HPC Resources
High-performance computing (HPC) combines multiple computational resources into a cluster or supercomputer with parallel data processing capabilities to solve extreme-scale simulations, AI inferencing, and data analyses that may not be feasible on a single system.
Wichita State University has partnered with Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University in order to provide additional computing resources to WSU researchers and staff. This includes access to large-scale computational resources from Beocat and Pete.
Cimarron: Open for Research
Wichita State researchers will soon gain access to Cimarron, Oklahoma State University's next-generation supercomputer, providing powerful new resources for advanced computing, AI, simulation, and data-intensive research. Oklahoma State University’s High-Performance Computing Center (OSU HPCC) will open Cimarron, its next-generation flagship supercomputer, to researchers on Monday, November 9, 2026. Cimarron runs 250 compute nodes with 37,760 CPU cores, nearly 179 TB of memory and 392 GPUs (32 H100, 240 L40S and 120 RTX6000).
To mark the launch, OSU HPCC is hosting Cimarron: Open for Research, a free grand opening and OAK meeting with technical sessions and system overviews, November 9–11 in Stillwater. Register for the grand opening here. Also that week, OSU HPCC is offering an NVIDIA workshop on building LLM applications with prompt engineering. The workshop requires its own registration, separate from the grand opening’s. Questions about the events can go to director-hpcc@okstate.edu. To learn more about Cimarron, including how to get access, visit OSU HPCC’s website.
Cimarron is funded in part by National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award #2216084. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the award including the efforts of Dr. Steve Skinner (former WSU Interim Dean of the College of Engineering), Dr. Jan Twomey (WSU Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering), and Dr. Terrance Figy (WSU Associate Professor of Physics), whose work on the Cimarron project and partnership with OSU helped make this collaboration possible.
Pete Supercomputer
Pete is a HPC cluster at Oklahoma State University, supported by Oklahoma State University's high-performance computing center. Get more information about the Pete supercomputer.
Oklahoma State University recently was awarded a Major Research Instrumentation award #2216084 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build and develop a new supercomputer. This award was a joint effort between Oklahoma State University, Arkansas State University, Wichita State University, Kansas State University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Central Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and the Great Plains Network. Award information can be found at MRI: Acquisition of a High-Performance Computational System for OAK Region to Enable Computing and Data Driven Discovery.
To apply the account, visit the webpage: https://hpcc.okstate.edu/account-request.html. For "Advisor Name" and the "Advisor or Faculty Email", please list your current faculty advisor. For "College", select "other(external, none of the above)".
Beocat
Beocat is a HPC cluster at Kansas State University run by the Institute for Computational Research. Access is available to any educational researcher in the state of Kansas (and their collaborators) without cost. Priority access is given to those researchers who have contributed resources. Learn more about accessing Beocat.
HTC Resources
High-throughput computing (HTC) executes numerous and self-contained tasks across available computing resources to optimize their overall completion. In comparison, the HTC environments deliver large amounts of computational power over a long period of time, while the HPC environments deliver a tremendous amount of computational power over a short period of time.
Open Science Grid (OSG)
OSG is a national, distributed High Throughput Computing (dHTC) service for data-intensive research. Learn more about the OSG documentation and New User Training Video.
Sharing is a core principle of the OSG. Over 100 million CPU hours delivered on the OSG in the past year were opportunistic: they would have remained on but idle if it was not for the OSG. WSU is one of the collaborating campuses of OSG. BeoShock contributes resources to the OSG through the Great Plains Augmented Regional Gateway to the Open Science Grid (GP-ARGO), which is supported by the National Science Foundation awards #2018766. Award information can be found at CC* Compute: GP-ARGO: The Great Plains Augmented Regional Gateway to the Open Science Grid. (GP-ARGO dashboard)
Gateways to Advanced Computing and Data Resources
You may need to apply for allocation on these resources. So make sure to have a research plan in hand.
ACCESS 
ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support, formerly XSEDE) is a national research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem for computational- and data-intensive research in science and engineering. ACCESS offers a broad range of computational resources, including systems such as HPC clusters, virtualization (cloud-style) clusters, HTC clusters, massive storage clusters, large memory clusters, and composable clusters. The list of resource providers can be found here for more information about their capabilities. Learn more about ACCESS. ACCESS offers several training events.
Our Campus Champion, Dr. Terrance Figy will assist you to create the account and provide you with information about high-performance computing resources available from ACCESS.
National Research Platform
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The National Research Platform (NRP) is a community‑owned, NSF‑supported cyberinfrastructure ecosystem that gives researchers and educators free access to advanced computing, AI‑ready hardware, global data resources, and intuitive tools like JupyterHub and Coder.
Spanning 50+ institutions and built on a flexible, multi‑tenant Kubernetes architecture, NRP enables AI, machine learning, and data‑intensive research across distributed sites in the U.S. and beyond.
Open to all nonprofit higher‑education institutions, NRP makes cutting‑edge technology accessible for courses, workshops, and large‑scale scientific collaborations.
Learn more and join the community: https://nrp.ai
NAIRR Pilot
The NAIRR aims to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources needed to advance SI research and research that employs SI. Learn more about NAIRR.