About the Farm Cluster
Updated on 7/30/25
Farm is a Linux-based supercomputing cluster for the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Designed for both research and teaching, it is a significant campus resource primarily for CPU and RAM-based computing. A wide selection of centrally managed software is available for research in genetics, proteomics, and related bioinformatics pipelines, weather and environmental modeling, fluid and particle simulations, geographic information systems (GIS) software, and more.
Access to Farm
All researchers in CA&ES are entitled to free access to
- 8 nodes with 24 CPUs and 64GB RAM each (up to a maximum of 192 CPUs and 512GB RAM) in Farm II’s low, medium, and high-priority batch queues,
- 4 nodes with 352 CPUs and 768GB RAM each in Farm III's low2, med2, and high2-priority batch queues.
- The bml (bigmem, low priority/requeue) partition, which has 24 nodes with a combined 60 TB of RAM.
Each new user is allocated a 20GB home directory.
If you want to use the CA&ES free tier, select “adamgrp" from the list of sponsors here.
Additional usage and access may be purchased by contributing to Farm through the node and/or storage rates or by purchasing equipment and contributing through the rack fee rate.
Contributors always receive priority access to the resources they purchased within one minute with the “one-minute guarantee.” Users can also request additional unused resources on a “fair share” basis in the medium or low partitions.
Farm Administration
The HPC Core Facility Team administers farm hardware and software. For information on buying into Farm, please see the rates page.