Documentation for the PROSPERO HPC facility
Prospero is the centralised high performance computing (HPC) facility for research at Liverpool John Moores University. The facility was commissioned in August 2020, is hosted and administered by LJMU’s IT services division.
Prospero is available for use by all research staff and postgraduate research students at LJMU, subject to usage policies. To start using Prospero please see Getting Access.
Important
06/02/2026 - Over the next few months, Prospero will be migrated from the RHEL v8 operating system to RHEL v9.7. This will provide long term support and improved performance. Under the new O/S, users will have a new, empty home space, accessed via a different gateway address. Users will be migrated to the new system in batches. Further information will follow as the new system is brought online. If you have concerns, please contact the hpc admin team.
Important
28/07/2025 - Phase-2 of Prospero is underway. The first 13 nodes with the Prospero-2 specification have been installed and are available in the compute and long SLURM partitions. The dissimilar specifications of Prospero-I and Prospero-II nodes has important implications for how job submission scripts should be written, please see here.
Note
Prospero uses the Linux operating system and does not run software designed for Windows
Contents
ABOUT HPC at LJMU
GETTING STARTED
RUNNING JOBS
SOFTWARE
GETTING HELP