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News
Availability of the Pleiades 8-GPU Nodes in the devel Queue
29 May, 2020
Beginning on Thursday, June 4, 2020, the two 8-GPU nodes on Pleiades (each containing eight NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs) will be set aside for the devel queue every weekday. This will make it easier to access a GPU node for program development. The...
Reminder - May 21: Suspend/Resume of Pleiades Jobs and Dedicated Time for Lou
20 May, 2020
Pleiades and Lou will be unavailable on Thursday, May 21, from 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) to perform system patching. During the suspend/resume period, Pleiades and associated front-end systems will not be available. Jobs cannot be...
Singularity Now Available on NAS Systems
15 May, 2020
The ability to build and run Singularity container images is now available on NAS systems. Developed by Sylabs Inc., Singularity, provides a Docker-like software container environment for shared HPC environments. Singularity allows you to create...
Update: Registration is Closed for the NASA Machine Learning with RAPIDS Bootcamp
11 May, 2020
Registration for the Machine Learning Bootcamp is now closed. Thank you for the immense interest in the bootcamp. We have received a large number of requests, and will be reaching out to the first 50 respondents. We will provide information about...
Merope Scheduled for Dedicated Time on May 6
05 May, 2020
Merope will be placed in dedicated time for system maintenance on Wednesday, May 6, from 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). No jobs will run and Merope will be unavailable during the dedicated time. If you have any questions or concerns,...
Reboot of SUP/Shift Manager System Scheduled for May 6
04 May, 2020
The Secure Unattended Proxy (SUP)/Shift manager system will be rebooted on Wednesday, May 6 at 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) to complete some required updates. SUP/Shift functionality will be unavailable for around 5 minutes. Existing connections...
Emergency Dedicated Time for Lou on May 1
30 Apr, 2020
The Lou mass storage system will be placed in emergency dedicated time for software patching on Friday, May 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Pacific Time. Lou will be unavailable during the dedicated time. You should not notice any impacts after...
Suspend/Resume of HECC PBS Jobs for Maintenance on April 21
14 Apr, 2020
All jobs running on Pleiades, Electra, and Aitken will be suspended on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) to perform system maintenance. During the suspend/resume period, jobs on these systems will not make...
Status Update: Aitken and Lou Outages on April 6
07 Apr, 2020
Please be aware that on Monday, April 6, 2020, between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time, the Aitken supercomputer and the Lou CXFS filesystems were affected by technical issues. Both systems were returned to operation after this brief outage. ...
Cancelled: Suspend/Resume of HECC PBS Jobs for Maintenance on April 7
06 Apr, 2020
The suspend/resume activity has been cancelled. Operations will continue as normal. We will keep you informed if the activity is rescheduled. Original notification All jobs running on Pleiades, Electra, and Aitken will be suspended on...
Dedicated Time for Most Front-End Systems (Including PFEs) on March 31
27 Mar, 2020
Most front-end systems, including the PFEs, will be placed in dedicated time for patching on Tuesday, March 31, from 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). The systems will be unavailable during the dedicated time. The Lou front ends (lfe5-8) and...
HECC Joins COVID-19 HPC Consortium
23 Mar, 2020
To help meet the challenge facing the nation and the world, HECC has joined the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, which seeks to empower researchers around the world to accelerate understanding of the COVID-19 virus and the development of treatments and...
Sky_Wide Queue on Electra Temporarily Disabled
20 Mar, 2020
The sky_wide queue on Electra's Skylake nodes has temporarily been disabled in order to process several high-priority, wide jobs in the queue. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you need to run wide jobs, please request approval by contacting...
Results of 2019 User Survey Now Available
20 Mar, 2020
In 2019, 231 users participated in a survey that addressed 12 HECC service areas. A summary of the survey results is now available, including information on key areas targeted for improvement over the next year: Communication Software packages...
Lou Dedicated Time on March 19
12 Mar, 2020
The Lou mass storage system will be placed in dedicated time for software upgrades from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Thursday, March 19. You should not notice any changes after the work is complete. If you have any questions, please...
Reminder: Dedicated Time for PBS Pro Update on March 3
02 Mar, 2020
HECC systems will be unavailable during dedicated time on March 3, according to the following schedule: Pleiades, Electra, Aitken: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Merope, Endeavour, hyperwall: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. No jobs will run during dedicated...
Reminder: Dedicated Time for /nobackupp7 on March 3
28 Feb, 2020
The nobackupp7 filesystem will be placed in dedicated time for software patching on Tuesday, March 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. During this time, the filesystem will not be available, jobs using /nobackupp7 will stop running, and...
Reminder: Brief NAS Network Outage on Feb. 25
24 Feb, 2020
A 10 to 15 minute network interruption to perform software upgrades on NAS network routers will affect all internet communications among remote systems and NAS systems on Tuesday, February 25 between 3:30 p.m - 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). Active...
Rescheduled: PBS Dedicated Time for PBS Pro Update on March 3
18 Feb, 2020
HECC's batch job processing software, PBS Professional (PBS Pro), will be updated from Version 13 to Version 19 on nodes served on Pleiades, Electra and Aitken on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Pacific Time. During this...
Dedicated Time for Pleiades V100 GPU Nodes on February 12
11 Feb, 2020
The NVIDIA V100 GPU nodes on Pleiades will be placed in dedicated time for system maintenance on Wednesday, February 12 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time. If you have any questions or need assistance please contact the Control Room at...
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