Unity Cluster Expansion Boosts Performance and Efficiency for URI Researchers

The Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR)—formerly known as CCR—and ITS Research Computing have expanded URI’s high-performance computing capacity with a major update to the Unity Cluster.

This upgrade includes:

• 12 × Intel compute nodes
• 6 × Nvidia Grace nodes
• 1 × Nvidia Grace-Hopper GH200 GPU node

With this expansion, Unity now supports approximately 520 nodes, totaling 28,000 CPU cores and 1,400 GPUs.

The newly added Grace and Grace-Hopper nodes feature energy-efficient ARM-based processors, designed to deliver strong performance while improving power efficiency—ideal for complex scientific workloads, AI research, and data modeling.

Need help getting started or want more information? Contact the team at iacr-group@uri.edu or connect via the Unity Community Slack.