SCRP Computer Cluster

SCRP is a high-performance computing cluster managed by the Department of Economics of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, designed to serve both research and teaching roles. In addition to supporting general compute, it also provides access to locally-hosted generative AI models through the SCRP-Chat service.

To start using the cluster, see Account and Access. To learn more about the cluster’s setup, see About.

Announcements

  • 2025-04-11 5:30pm

    We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Gemma-3, a family of vision-capable models released by Google in March, and QwQ-32B, a medium-sized reasoning model from Alibaba. With the arrival of the former, SCRP-Chat now offers a full range of vision models. We will therefore retire our existing range of text-only Llama 3 models one week from today (April 21th 2025).

  • 2025-03-10 5:00pm

    We will be upgrading the login nodes’ operating system to Ubuntu 22.04 this week.

    • scrp-login-2 will be upgraded on Wednesday March 12th at 11am. While the upgrade will take only a few minutes to complete, please note that during the upgrade, all tasks that were still running on the node right before the upgrade will be killed. Slurm tasks initiated through srun or compute on the node will also be terminated. Jupyter-Slurm and sbatch tasks are not affect by the upgrade.
    • scrp-login-1 will be upgraded on Friday March 14th at midnight. All tasks that were still running on the node right before the upgrade will be killed. Again, Jupyter-Slurm and sbatch tasks are not affect by the upgrade.
    • Previous announcements