Office of Information Technology (OIT) offers NC State faculty an HPC Partnership Program. Researchers purchase HPC hardware (compute blades and/or storage) and any specialized or discipline-specific software licenses. OIT provides space in an appropriate and secure operating environment, option to combine the purchased computing power and storage with that available by the general HPC program, and the system administration and support. In return for services provided by OIT, when computing resources are not being used by the faculty partner, the server(s) are available to the general NC State HPC cluster user community.

GRID: NCSU's Grid project is part of the UNC-OP and NC Grid Computing Initiative. The initial deployment has been in the form of an active >NC Biogrid computing node, located at NCSU in 2002. Since 2004 VCL project and facilities are the backbone of NC State grid activities..