# Alpine

On May 18, 2022, CU Research Computing released phase 1 of Alpine, the third generation CURC High-Performance 
Computing Cluster. Phase 2 was released in September 2022. Phase 3 was released in July 2023. 

## Overview

Alpine is the University of Colorado Boulder Research Computing’s third-generation High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. 
Alpine is a heterogeneous compute cluster currently composed of hardware provided from University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 
State University, and Anschutz Medical Campus. Alpine currently offers {{ alpine_total_compute_nodes }} compute nodes and a total of {{ alpine_total_cores }} cores. Alpine can 
be securely accessed anywhere, anytime using Open OnDemand or ssh connectivity to the CURC system. All nodes are available to all 
users. For full details about node access, please refer to the Alpine Node Access and FairShare policy.

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Alpine Table of Contents 
quick-start
alpine-hardware
slurm_directive_ex
allocations
moving-from-summit
important-notes
condo-fairshare-and-resource-access
```

Alpine is jointly funded by the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Anschutz, Colorado State University, and the National Science Foundation (award 2201538).