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News
New Lou Data Analysis Nodes in Production
07 Mar, 2013
NAS has deployed ten Lou Data Analysis Nodes (ldan) for pre- or post-processing of mass storage data through PBS jobs. Lou2 users can use these nodes now, and Lou1 users will be able to use them after the two systems are merged. To get details on...
Training Materials for "Introduction to the New Shared Memory System Endeavour" Now Available
28 Feb, 2013
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Introduction to the New Shared Memory System Endeavour" which was held on February 27, 2013. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG...
New Endeavour Supercomputer Released for Production Work
22 Feb, 2013
HECC has released the new Endeavour supercomputer to users for production computing work. Endeavour is an SGI UV 2000 system that replaces the legacy Columbia supercomputer, which is being phased out. The new system retains the shared-memory...
Columbia Phase-Out Process Has Begun
12 Feb, 2013
Update: The Columbia supercomputer is being phased-out to make room for the new Endeavour supercomputer being installed at the NAS facility. As of February 27, 2013, the Columbia nodes c23-24 have been taken offline. Columbia 22 is still...
Training Materials for "Effective Use of the New Lou2 Mass Storage Cluster" Now Available
30 Jan, 2013
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Effective Use of the New Lou2 Mass Storage Cluster" which was held on January 23, 2013. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file...
Training Materials for "Reduce Post-Processing Time and Improve Understanding of Complex Physical Phenomena with Tecplot 360" Now Available
18 Dec, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Reduce Post-Processing Time and Improve Understanding of Complex Physical Phenomena with Tecplot 360," which was held on December 12, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented,...
Training Materials for "UnInit: Fix your code! Finding computation with uninitialized data" Now Available Online
08 Nov, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "UnInit: Fix your code! Finding computation with uninitialized data" which was held on October 31, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an ...
Training Materials for "Getting an Account to use Resources at NAS" Now Available
08 Nov, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Getting an Account to use Resources at NAS" which was held on November 07, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the...
Training Materials for "Basic Debugging" Now Available
12 Oct, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Basic Debugging" which was held on October 10, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the recorded audio session. See...
NAS User Webinar, "Basic Debugging" on October 10th
19 Sep, 2012
Mark your calendars for our next web-based user training session "Basic Debugging," to be held on Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 11 a.m. PT. During the code development or porting process, debugging is often needed to pinpoint the cause of either...
Training Materials for "Shared-Memory Parallelism and OpenMP" Now Available Online
29 Aug, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Shared-Memory Parallelism and OpenMP," which was held on August 22, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the recorded...
Results of 2011 User Survey Now Available
23 Aug, 2012
More than 25% of you participated in a user survey in 2011. This report provides a summary of the survey results, a comparison with the 2009 survey, and information on related activities undertaken over the last year to improve performance in...
Merger of Pleiades PBS Queues and Nodes on August 16th
14 Aug, 2012
During dedicated time on Thursday, Aug. 16th, from 9 - 11 AM Pacific Time, NAS staff will merge the Pleiades server pbspl3 with pbsl1. With this change, plus simple script updates, you'll no longer have to keep track of which server to use and...
Remote Access to NAS Gets Easier Starting August 8th
30 Jul, 2012
Remote access to the NAS environment will soon be easier, as users will be able to access any bastion instead of having to remember which bastion goes to which resource. On Monday, August 8, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. PT, we will consolidate sfe1, sfe2,...
Training Materials for "What is an SBU and Why Should I Care?" are Available Online
30 Jul, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "What is an SBU and Why Should I Care?" which was held on July 25, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the recorded...
Training Materials for "Using the Sandy Bridge Nodes" are Available Online
19 Jul, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Using the Sandy Bridge Nodes," which was held twice in June 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the recorded audio...
Pleiades Supercomputer Gets a Little More Oomph
19 Jun, 2012
NASA's flagship Pleiades supercomputer has just gotten a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of scientists and engineers working on some of the agency's most challenging missions. An expansion completed earlier...
New Pleiades Sandy Bridge Nodes Available to Users on June 18th
15 Jun, 2012
After much anticipation, on Monday, June 18, 2012, users will have access to Pleiades' 24 new SGI ICE X (Sandy Bridge) racks containing 3,456 Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors. The expanded system now comprises 126,720 cores in 182 racks, and has a...
Video for "Are Cloud Environments Ready for NASA HPC Applications?" Now Available Online
01 Jun, 2012
The video is now available for the webinar "Are Cloud Environments Ready for NASA HPC Applications?" which was held May 30, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the recorded audio...
Pleiades/Lou2 Dedicated Time Rescheduled to begin May 21
14 May, 2012
Due to delays in integrating the new Sandy Bridge processors, the dedicated time to clean the Pleiades InfiniBand fabric will take place the week of May 21st instead of this week. The new dedicated time schedule is: Pleiades: 7:00 a.m., May 21,...
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