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Training Materials for "Getting an Account to use Resources at NAS" are Available Online
26 Apr, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Getting an Account to use Resources at NAS," which was held April 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 "Simple Automated File Transfers Using SUP and Shift" are Available Online
11 Apr, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "Simple Automated File Transfers Using SUP and Shift," which was held April 04, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the...
Call for Submissions for HPC Innovation Excellence Award - Deadline April 30th
05 Apr, 2012
International Data Corporation (IDC) has recently announced a call to recognize high returns on investment in the HPC user community. This is an excellent opportunity for you to showcase the advances in your areas enabled through the utilization of...
New RSA Tokens Distributed
12 Mar, 2012
New SecurID RSA tokens have been distributed to local and remote users who had tokens that expire in 2012, 2013, or 2014. If your token has an expiration date of one of these years and you did not receive a new token, please contact the NAS Control...
Pleiades Hardware Upgrade Coming in March 2012
06 Mar, 2012
As part of the next upgrade to Pleiades 1,728 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes will arrive at the NAS facility on March 30th. Each node contains two Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors with 8 cores each (16 cores per node). Once the new nodes are operational,...
'Bigmem' Nodes Now Available on Westmeres
27 Feb, 2012
Recently, NAS systems engineers augmented 21 Westmere nodes with additional memory. Previously, all Pleiades Westmere nodes had 24 GB of memory per node, so a job that required more than 24 GB/node would not run. Now, 4 nodes are equipped with 96...
New Utility Available for Automated File Transfer
15 Feb, 2012
A new utility, called Shift, is now available to help you automate the reliable transfer of data within the NAS enclave and to external locations. Shift (Self-Healing Independent File Transfer) selects the highest performance method to transfer...
Training Materials for I/O Tips and Techniques Available Online
06 Feb, 2012
Training materials are now available for the webinar "I/O" Tips & Techniques" held January 11, 2012. You can download a PDF of the slides presented, and follow along with an accompanying MPEG file of the recorded audio session. See Past...
New RSA Tokens to be Mailed Starting February 6th
02 Feb, 2012
Starting February 6, 2012, all SecurID RSA tokens assigned to local and remote users and that expire in 2012, 2013, or 2014 will be replaced with new tokens. If you are among the users whose tokens will be replaced, you will be notified directly...
Lou2 Dedicated Time on Wednesday January 18th
10 Jan, 2012
The mass storage system Lou2 will be in dedicated time from 13:00 to 17:00 on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, for the installation of new hardware. Please plan accordingly. If you have any questions or need assistance please contact the Control...
User Training Session on January 11th
06 Jan, 2012
We start off the new year with a new web-based user training session, "I/O: Tips & Techniques" on Wednesday January 11, 2012 at 11am PT. This webinar covers the various aspects of I/O at NAS, including such things as: Getting data to/from...
User Training Session on December 7th
02 Dec, 2011
Our series of web-based user training sessions continues with "Where Should I Run My Job?" on Wednesday December 7, 2011 at 11am PT. This webinar covers various aspects of where to run jobs on Pleiades. The available hardware resources (in...
NASA Selects Next-Generation SGI Platform for Technology Upgrade
08 Nov, 2011
NASA has selected the next-generation SGI® ICE high performance computing platform to extend the computational capability of the Pleiades supercomputer, operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames Research Center. The...
NASA Ames Inks Lustre Support Deal with Whamcloud
28 Oct, 2011
Whamcloud, Inc., has announced a Lustre support contract with the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, to provide better operational continuity for NAS's high-performance computing environment. Lustre, the massively...
User Training Sessions Begin November 9th
27 Oct, 2011
HECC has designed a series of new, web-based training sessions (webinars) to help users get the most benefit from their computational time on NAS systems. The first session will be especially relevant for new users, and may serve as a refresher...
NAS Transition to 8 Character RSA SecurID Token PIN
13 Oct, 2011
WHAT: RSA SecurID Token PINs changing to 8 alphanumeric characters WHEN: 5:00 a.m. PDT, Tuesday November 1st NAS will be changing RSA SecurID token PINs to 8 alphanumeric characters. If you do not already have an 8-character PIN that complies...
HECC Monthly Reports Available Online
14 Sep, 2011
Curious about the behind-the-scenes work to keep our world-class supercomputing facility operating smoothly? Take a look at this year's online collection of HECC monthly reports, which highlight: Support for selected NASA science and and...
Improving File Transfer Rates
25 Aug, 2011
If you're experiencing slow file transfer rates, you may be able to increase network performance an order of magnitude or more using a few simple techniques. You can find some quick tips in a new HECC Knowledge Base article, "Increasing File...
Pleiades devel Queue Move to Separate Server
15 Aug, 2011
Pleiades devel Queue Move to Separate Server WHAT: A new server, pbspl3, will be set up to improve the scheduling time for the devel queue. WHEN: During August 20-21 system outage IMPACT: Users will have to specify the server when...
New Modification to Pleiades Output
21 Jul, 2011
TO: All NAS Users WHAT: Users' Pleiades output now includes a job summary block with Lustre filesystem statistics. WHEN: New feature will be effective Tuesday, July 26, 2011 IMPACT TO USERS: When a PBS job reads or writes to a...
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