Overview of AI at CARC

The Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) provides tools, services, and hardware that support AI and machine learning (ML) research workloads. This section provides a comprehensive list of CARC resources to meet your research needs.

Our newest service, Topanga AI Computing, is now available! Topanga is a paid service offering on-demand compute sessions, advanced GPU resource sharing, secure and isolated computing environments, and a pay-as-you-go model, giving researchers greater flexibility to access the computing resources they need, when they need them. For more information, please see the Topanga AI Computing user guides.

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1.1 AI Coding Agents

Learn how to use AI coding agents, like Claude or Codex, safely and effectively on CARC clusters.

1.2 Topanga AI Computing

Discover our flexible, scalable, and secure computing service for AI and ML workloads.

1.3 NVIDIA NIMs

Information on how to run NIMs using CARC OnDemand or on the cluster.

1.4 Ollama with JupyterLab

This guide walks through the complete workflow of running the Ollama model-serving engine inside an Apptainer container, pulling a specific model, and generating a response - all from a JupyterLab terminal.

1.5 Ray on Discovery

Discover Ray, an open-source distributed computing framework primarily designed for building and scaling distributed applications.