HPC project management portal

Coldfront is the HPC project and allocation management portal for Torch at NYU. You can access it by navigating to coldfront.hpc.nyu.edu. With it you can:

PIs

• Create a project
• Request allocations for your projects
• Add/Delete members associated with your project
• Modify access to allocations for the members of your project

Researchers

• View the projects and allocations you are part of
• View the SLURM accounts for projects you are part of

School Approvoers

• Approve the resource allocation requests from PIs for projects associated with your school

VPN Needed

You need to be connected to the NYU VPN or be present on campus to access the Coldfront HPC project management portal.

How do I:

• Create a project: refer to creating a project
• Request an allocation: refer to submitting an allocation request
• Approve an allocation request: refer to approving an allocation request
• View resources that are available to me: refer to current allocations sub-section here

A coldfront allocation is needed to perform any work on Torch. The next sections describe the project and allocation request process in detail.