Computing for STEM education and research in North Carolina
NCShare gives researchers and educators at participating institutions computing and GPU resources at no cost, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Run interactive Jupyter and RStudio sessions, parallel workflows, and AI on NVIDIA H200s.
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Get Access
Computing and storage are free for faculty, staff, and students at participating institutions.
- New users: sign up with your campus login
- Courses: Jupyter and RStudio containers
- GPUs: request H200 access
- Existing users: renew your account
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Get Started
- New to clusters? Start with Cluster Basics
- Log in with SSH or VS Code
- Use Jupyter and RStudio in the browser with OnDemand
- Set up Python with Miniforge, or use containers
- Submit Slurm jobs
- Move data with scp and rsync
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AI on NCShare
Run coding agents, local LLMs, and GPU-heavy AI workloads on NCShare's H200 GPUs.
- Run coding agents on compute nodes
- H200 GPUs and how to get access
- Local LLMs with vLLM or Ollama
- OpenCode and Codex CLI on NCShare
- AI use policy
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Quick Reference
Need help?
Start with your campus support contact. You can also email the NCShare team, book a consultation with us, or ask the community in our discussion forum.