Compute

Explore compute resources (high-throughput, GPUs, etc.) for your next project! UW-Madison researchers should check out the UW Cloud Services page for information on institutional discounts, data protections, and how to request a cloud account.

National Research Platform (NRP)
Compute
Notebooks
Code-along
GPU
LLM
API
Kubernetes
Jupyter
Education
NSF

Free open-weight LLM endpoints plus free Kubernetes GPU compute for InCommon-affiliated researchers. Reference + Python code-along for hitting the NRP-hosted LLM API.

Chris Endemann
2026-05-13

Understanding Quantization and Precision
Notebooks
Code-along
Compute
Deep learning
LLM
Quantization
GPU
Hugging Face
PyTorch

Explore quantization and floating-point precision in deep learning — covering FP32, FP16, BF16, INT8, and 4-bit formats and their impact on GPU memory and inference speed.

Chris Endemann
2026-03-09

Intro to GCP for Machine Learning & AI
Workshops
Code-along
Carpentries
Compute
Cloud
Google
GCP
GPU
LLM
RAG
Retrieval
This Intro to GCP workshop teaches core workflows for building, training, and tuning ML/AI models in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform. Participants learn to set up data…
Chris Endemann
2026-03-05

UW-Madison Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Compute
Cloud
UW-Madison
AWS
GCP
Azure
GPU
UW-Madison offers enterprise cloud computing through contracts with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. These services are managed…
Chris Endemann
2026-03-02

Intro to AWS SageMaker for Predictive ML/AI
Workshops
Code-along
Carpentries
Compute
AWS
GPU
Cloud
RAG
SageMaker
Bedrock
This introductory AWS SageMaker workshop teaches core workflows for running predictive ML/AI models in AWS SageMaker, an AWS-managed machine learning environment.…
Chris Endemann
2025-11-07

Google Colab
Compute
Jupyter
Google
GPU
Google Colab is a cloud-based Jupyter notebook environment that runs entirely in the browser. It allows you to write and execute Python code without installing anything…
Chris Endemann
2025-09-26

BadgerCompute
Compute
UW-Madison
GPU
Jupyter
BadgerCompute is UW–Madison’s browser-based interactive computing service built on JupyterHub. It provides on-demand access to CPUs, memory, and GPUs without requiring any…
Chris Endemann
2025-09-24

Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC)
Compute
UW-Madison
GPU
HPC
HTC
Established in 2006, the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) is UW-Madison’s core computational service provider for large-scale computing. CHTC offers two main…
Chris Endemann
2024-06-25
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