July 15, 2016 — I’m excited to announce the arrival of two new members of the Research Computing Support Services team: Jacob Gotberg and Susie Meloro.
June 15, 2016 — Research Computing Support Services continues to grow in terms of people, equipment, and infrastructure. First of I would like to welcome our latest team member, Jacob Gotberg. Jacob will be joining us in July as a Cyberinfrastructure Engineer and will be equally supporting research computing on campus and the College of Engineering. Jacob joins us from Sandia National Laboratories where he worked in high-performance computing (HPC).
May 31, 2016 — There will be no Lewis3 training on Wednesday, June 1.
May 27, 2016 — Please note this updated schedule for Lewis3 Training held on Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
April 28, 2016 — The Research Computing Support Services team will be traveling to Kansas City, Missouri, for the Annual Meeting of the Great Plains Network and the Greater Western Library Alliance that will be held June 1-3, 2016. This meeting will bring together knowledge and information technology professionals including advanced network and cyberinfrastructure users, faculty members, researchers, librarians, information technology staff, graduate students from leading universities and high education networks. Early career researchers are encouraged to attend the Software Carpentry Workshops on Thursday, June 2, and Friday, June 3. Travel stipend awards are available. The application deadline is May 6, 2016.
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April 22, 2016 — Please note this updated schedule for Lewis3 Training held on Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. There is a change of location on May 11:
Feb. 17, 2016 — The past year has seen a lot of changes for research computing on campus and a lot are in the works. The beginning of the year saw the commissioning of more than one petabyte of General Purpose Research Storage (GPRS) for researchers on campus to have an affordable way to store large amounts of data (currently at $10/TB/month). The MU Cyberinfrastructure Council was instrumental in the development of the policy for the storage system and will help develop new services and policies in the future. The Lewis HPC upgrade started with the commissioning of 32 new nodes in conjunction with a new experimental cluster and 32 additional nodes sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The combined system has more than 2,000 cores and is growing. Because the two systems share infrastructure, the Lewis3 system can take advantage of cycles not used by grant activities.
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Feb. 8, 2016 — The Lewis3 cluster will undergo maintenance on Wednesday, February 24, at 8:00 a.m. We expect it to last until 5:00 p.m. There will be no Lewis3 training that day. The SLURM scheduler will accept and run jobs up until the maintenance reservation and will immediately resume jobs after the maintenance window closes. It will schedule any jobs submitted before maintenance begins, if they fit. However, be sure to specify your resource requirements (time and memory) explicitly.
Feb. 4, 2016 — Last fall the RCSS team went to Supercompute 2015 to learn about the latest in the High Performance Computing industry and to meet and collaborate with peers across the nation and the world. The Great Plains Network hosted a booth that we shared with other groups across the region. (See photo)
Jan. 25, 2016 — For the remainder of the semester, our ongoing training series for Lewis 3 will be held on Wednesdays in the following locations, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: January 27th – Feb 24th – 223 Gwynn Hall | March 2nd – May 24th – 1 Switzler Hall. This series covers the basics of the new hardware, how to use the new scheduler, how to use secure shell key-based authentication, and any other questions you may have. Please bring your own laptop.