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News
NASA's SC20 Virtual Exhibit Features Research Projects Run on HECC Systems
19 Nov, 2020
The virtual NASA@SC20 exhibit showcases 35 science and engineering projects enabled by NASA supercomputing resources. In HECC: Meeting Today's Needs, Planning for the Future, HECC Project Manager Bill Thigpen wraps up the year's activities and...
Aitken Dedicated Time Scheduled for Nov. 9 - 18
02 Nov, 2020
To continue preparing for the upcoming Aitken expansion, the current Aitken system is scheduled for dedicated time from Monday, November 9 at 8:00 a.m. through Wednesday, November 18 at 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). Note: While the dedicated time is...
EXTENDED: Aitken Dedicated Time Extended to Oct. 29
28 Oct, 2020
While preparing for the upcoming Aitken expansion, we came across facility issues that need to be addressed before placing the system back into production. The current Aitken system will continue in dedicated time through Thursday, October 29, at...
Emergency Dedicated Time for /nobackupp3 Filesystem on October 22
21 Oct, 2020
The nobackupp3 filesystem will be placed in emergency dedicated time on Thursday, October 22, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, in order to make a hardware replacement. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions...
Lou Dedicated Time Scheduled for Oct. 15
08 Oct, 2020
The Lou mass storage system will be placed in dedicated time from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Thursday, October 15, to investigate a performance issue. Lou will be unavailable during the dedicated time. If you have any questions, please...
Merope Dedicated Time for PBS Upgrade Scheduled for October 7
05 Oct, 2020
Merope will be placed in dedicated time to upgrade the Portable Batch System (PBS) from version 19 to version 20, on Wednesday, October 7, from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). No jobs will run and Merope will be unavailable during the...
Reminder: Tecplot Version 2017r2 Retired on NAS Systems
25 Sep, 2020
Per email sent to users on August 26, 2020, this is a reminder that Tecplot 360 2017 Release 2 (2017r2) has been deprecated. Attempts to load the tecplot/2017r2 module will fail, which could result in PBS job failures. Tecplot versions that are...
Sept. 22: Suspend/Resume for Pleiades, Electra, and Aitken; Dedicated Time for Endeavour and Merope
17 Sep, 2020
There will be a suspend/resume of jobs on Pleiades, Electra, and Aitken and dedicated time for Endeavour and Merope on Tuesday, September 22, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) for system patching. The following services will be affected: ...
NAS Network Interruptions on Sept. 17
10 Sep, 2020
On Thursday, September 17, connections to NAS networks will be interrupted multiple times, for approximately 30-minute periods, during a four-hour maintenance window (4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time). During the interruptions: There will be no...
Failed Jobs on Electra
29 Aug, 2020
Electra is experiencing a problem and our system administrators are working on resolving the issue. Some jobs may have failed during this time. With many nodes down, jobs running last night failed. If you have a job affected by this outage,...
Brief sfe1 Outage on Sept. 4
28 Aug, 2020
The secure front-end system sfe1 will be unavailable for a brief period (15 to 60 minutes) during a maintenance window that will occur between 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Friday, September 4, 2020. The other SFEs (sfe2-3) will not be...
Electra Skylake Nodes Dedicated Time on September 8 and 9
17 Aug, 2020
Electra Skylake nodes will be placed in dedicated time for facility maintenance from Tuesday, September 8 at 7:00 a.m. to Wednesday, September 9 at 7:00 p.m., Pacific Time. Electra's Skylake nodes will not be available during this time. For...
Lou Dedicated Time Scheduled for August 6
28 Jul, 2020
The Lou mass storage system will be placed in dedicated time for an operating system upgrade from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Thursday, August 6. During this time, Lou will be unavailable. If you have any questions, please contact...
User Application Survey Open Through August 21
20 Jul, 2020
The HECC User Application survey is now open! The goal of this survey is to better understand your applications so that we can plan for future hardware capability and capacity, software packages, and support services. The survey should take less...
Reminder: ARMD, HEOMD, NESC, SMD, and STMD Computer Time Requests Due Today
20 Jul, 2020
Please read the following carefully, as instructions are dependent on your supporting organization. Program managers from NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD), Space...
July 22: Suspend/Resume for Pleiades, Electra, and Aitken; Dedicated Time for Endeavour and Merope
17 Jul, 2020
Pleiades, Electra, and Aitken will be unavailable on Wednesday, July 22, from 5:00 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time). During this time, facility upgrades will be performed, along with patching of Pleiades/Electra/Aitken infrastructure and front...
Reminder: Changes to PBS Job Requests for Pleiades V100 GPU Resources on July 16
16 Jul, 2020
Starting today, PBS now handles NVIDIA Volta V100 GPU nodes differently than in the past. The new configuration allows multiple PBS jobs to share a single node. For detailed information, see Changes to PBS Job Requests for V100 GPU Resources. ...
NASA GPU Hackathon Goes Virtual; Applications Accepted Through July 31
14 Jul, 2020
After careful evaluation of the status and requirements for accessing onsite ventures, the local organizing committee has decided to hold the NASA GPU Hackathon using a virtual format. Details about the format, including video conference connection...
Training Materials for User Webinar, "HECC Data Science Platform" Now Available
05 Jun, 2020
The training materials from the user webinar "HECC Data Science Platform," held on June 3, 2020, are now available. See HECC User Training. This webinar provides a brief, high-level overview of the data science conda environments provided for use...
2020 NAS Data Science Survey
03 Jun, 2020
This survey from NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is being conducted to identify use cases for both current High-End Computing Capability (HECC) users and potential new users, for providing additional capabilities in Data Science, adding...
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