Research Computing News

Meet RSS – Tuesday March 14th 2-5 P.M. at NextGen

March 8, 2023 — RSS is hosting a meet and greet with interested researchers on Tuesday March 14th from 2-5 PM in the Atkins Seminar Room in the NextGen Precision Health Building. Come meet the team and learn more about our upcoming resources and opportunities to enhance your research. Cookies and drinks will be provided. Please R.S.V.P. at: https://umurl.us/SP23ITRSS

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Nov. 9, 2022 — Hello Research Computing Community,   We hope everyone is having a good week.  There are only a few important announcements to be mentioned today and this should be considered an addition to last week’s email: EMAIL OUTAGE                    Friday, Nov 11th         4:45 - 6PM      We are expecting an outage to our email THIS FRIDAY…

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RSS Announcements – September 2022

Sept. 7, 2022 — Hello Research Computing Community, In this newsletter for the week of September 6th, 2022! … Upcoming Maintenance Clark Maintenance Lewis Maintenance Office Hours External Opportunities Women in HPC MONAI Introduction Happy September to the MU HPC community! We hope everyone had a great summer and a safe Labor Day. We have a few short announcements,…

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RSS Announcements – January 2022

Jan. 19, 2022 — Hello Research Computing Community, Happy New Year to all our users! We hope you had a safe and happy holiday break. You may have read about the Kyoto University supercomputer incident from a few weeks ago. Apparently, a bug in the backup program of their storage system caused about 34 million files, approximately 77TB of…

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Important Partition Changes

Nov. 12, 2019 — The Lewis Maintenance has been completed. The queue was released yesterday and jobs have been running overnight. The login will open shortly. Important information about running jobs below.The new GPU rack has been installed and one more investor GPU node with 3x V100’s has been added to the cluster. We can now easily add GPU…

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RCSS November Maintenance Window (11/11)

Oct. 28, 2019 — We are scheduling a short maintenance window for Monday November 11th to add more GPU’s to the Lewis Cluster and do some work on the Research Network in anticipation of adding the HPC6 rack. Jobs that are scheduled to complete before Monday at 6:00am will run and jobs in the queue will start running after the…

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New training program for Lewis users

Oct. 28, 2019 — Research Computing Support Services (RCSS) at MU will start offering training courses related to high performance computing. The first course will be on basic usage of Linux/Unix system where the user will receive a training on basic Linux commands and typical workflow on a Linux machine. All courses will be hands on with demonstration of…

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RCSS Summer/Fall 2019 Update

Oct. 1, 2019 — This summer we continued to grow and evolve Research Computing on campus and across the system.  We would like to welcome Predrag Lazic to the group.  Predrag comes from a career in academia where he worked in the fields of computational materials science and physics and has expertise in large-scale parallel computations.  We would also…

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Lewis Expansion and the HPC Investment Service

July 19, 2019 — If you plan on investing in the cluster with equipment grant funds in the next 12 months please read this as the HPC Investor service is changing. HPC Investors need to respond ASAP. We are in the final phase of purchasing our next HPC expansion rack (HPC6) in anticipation of removing older nodes early in…

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Presentation: High Performance Computing in Materials Science – Non-local Correlation and Electrostatics

May 31, 2019 — Research Computing will be hosting Dr. Predrag Lazic in the Physics Library at 4:00 PM Monday, June 3rd. Title: High performance computing in materials science - non-local correlation and electrostatics. Abstract: In this talk we will present two projects from materials science that are closely related to HPC. The first project which resulted in the…

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