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Client Support Closure During Winter Break

December 19, 2025 11:09 am

NOTE: The ICDS Client Support help desk will be closed from COB December 19 until January 5th. Routine support tickets will not be addressed during the break, though ICDS staff will be monitoring the Roar system for large scale issues.

About

About

A High Performance Computational Research Community

The Institute for Computational and Data Sciences is one of seven interdisciplinary research institutes within Penn State’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Research. ICDS brings researchers together to develop and apply innovative, high performance computation methods. ICDS supports faculty from dozens of departments in nearly all of Penn State’s twenty-four campuses.

Mission & Vision

Our Mission

To accelerate scientific discovery and innovation through expert faculty, world-class computational resources, technical support, and collaborative infrastructure. Through advanced data analytics, computational methods, artificial intelligence, quantum science, digital twins, and high-performance computing, we empower scientists and engineers across disciplines to tackle complex problems that shape our understanding of the world and improve society.

Our Vision

To advance the frontiers of computational and data science through groundbreaking research, collaborative innovation, and the development of next-generation tools, methods, cyberinfrastructure and talent that transform how we understand and shape our world.

Penn State’s Computational and Data Sciences Research Community

ICDS enables and supports the diverse computational and data science research taking place throughout Penn State.

Seed Grants: ICDS offers seed grants periodically to launch new areas of research.

Co-Hires and Startup Packages: ICDS partners with many Penn State units to recruit talented computational and data scientists. Through the ICDS Co-Hire program, established in 2012, ICDS has jointly hired top-tier scientists in partnership with other Penn State campuses and academic colleges. Additionally, ICDS helps to support startup packages for other faculty members joining the Penn State ranks.

Cyberinfrastructure: ICDS operates and continues to expand a world-class high-performance computing system known as the Roar Collab supercomputer. This valuable resource lets Penn State researchers carry out advanced simulation and statistical modeling, data analysis, data mining, machine learning, and more.

With thousands of computational cores, and petabytes of storage, Roar Collab gives Penn State researchers access to the massive computing resources required by today’s computational and data intensive research.

The Roar Collab supercomputer is located in a data center operated by the Data Center Services unit of the Penn State Office of the Vice President for Information Technology.

Multi-Institute Collaborations

Our work intersects with seven other Penn State institutes: