High-Performance Computing
Saint Louis University has a campuswide high-performance computing (HPC) cluster (Libra) run by the Research Computing Group for all SLU faculty and students. Data in Science Technologies manages all account requests, technical and support questions.
Libra Specs
The new, campuswide high-performance computing cluster (Libra) was installed and tested in summer 2025 is now ready for general use. It was partially funded by the National Science Foundation. It features advanced GPU nodes and high-memory CPU nodes to support AI and machine learning as well as computationally intensive workloads across multiple disciplines. Additional compute nodes have been added by individual research groups. All compute nodes have access to very high-performance storage over a 200 Gbs network. To date, more than 50 users have been on-boarded and early usage has demonstrated a substantial performance boost compared to similar jobs running on the previous HPC, Aries.
Accounts are available free to faculty, staff and students engaged in research and can be requested
If you are interested in purchasing a node for the cluster with priority access for your lab or department workloads, reach out to Maureen Donlin at maureen.donlin@health.slu.edu or Lucas Guffey lucas.guffey@health.slu.edu for additional information.

















