eNewsletter - July 2018

Upcoming software upgrades and HPC downtime

Our annual software upgrade will take place from Monday, August 13, through Friday, August 17. During this time, we will upgrade most of the software we support on the HPC. The HPC and Spear clusters will be unavailable during the maintenance.

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Additional GPUs added to the HPC

An increasing number of scientific libraries and tools are taking advantage of the processing capabilities of modern GPUs. To meet this demand, we have increased the number of GPU nodes on the HPC. These nodes are general access and available to all HPC users.

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Research Spotlight: Sentiment Analysis of the 2016 Election

Prasad Maddumage, an HPC applications specialist at the RCC, conducted intriguing machine learning research to examine the general public's attitudes of the 2016 US presidential election based on their tweets.

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Check out our new submit script generator!

Scientific Computing student Stephen Townsend has built a web app that makes it easy to build Slurm Submit Scripts for your HPC jobs.  Let our submit script generator guide you through the process of constructing your HPC jobs.

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Migration to new GPFS filesystem nearly complete

We appreciate everyone's patience and support during our migration from Panasas and Lustre to GPFS. Thanks to your help, we have migrated over 95% of data to our new file system with minimal disruption to research.  We anticipate we'll be ready to retire the Lustre and Panasas file systems in a few weeks.

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