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Lonestar5 Extended Maintenance October 14-20
Posted by Sergio Leal on Sep 14, 2018 11:42:38 AM
We will be taking an exceptionally long, one time only maintenance period on Lonestar5 from Sunday, October 14 through Saturday, October 20, 2018. Many of you have likely noticed “old” components in the software stack for Lonestar; unfortunately at this point our only option to update involves...
Updated on Oct 20, 2018 8:07:41 PM
The Lonestar5 maintenance is continuing for longer than anticipated. System administrators are still working to bring up and customize the upgraded operating system, networks, and file systems. With the substantial progress made so far we have forgone our option to revert. Please be on the lookout for new announcements as we approach production status. We appreciate your patience in this substantial undertaking.
Updated on Oct 8, 2018 9:26:09 AM
This is a reminder to the already posted and atypically long maintenance window booked for the dates: Sunday, October 14 through Saturday, October 20, 2018. The full announcement is here: https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/user-news/-/news/103097.
Updated on Oct 1, 2018 9:28:03 AM
This is a reminder to the already posted and unusually long maintenance window booked for the dates: Sunday, October 14 through Saturday, October 20, 2018. The full announcement is here: https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/user-news/-/news/103097.
The most common question question received so far is which glibc version will exist after the update: GNU libc 2.22
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Matlab Server Maintenance 27 September, 2018
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Sep 27, 2018 2:36:57 PM
A maintenance window is scheduled for today, Thursday, September 27th from 5PM - 6PM for the Matlab license server. Matlab on TACC systems may not be accessible during this maintenance
A maintenance window is scheduled for today, Thursday, September 27th from 5PM - 6PM for the Matlab license server. Matlab on TACC systems may not be accessible during this maintenance
TACC Maintenance 23 September, 2018
Posted by Sergio Leal on Sep 18, 2018 3:40:03 PM
Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable from 8:00 AM CDT until 4:00 PM CDT on September 23, 2018 to allow for upgrades to the TACC core network hardware. Jobs will continue to run, but users will have no access to TACC services and systems until the upgrade is complete.
Updated on Sep 23, 2018 12:57:17 PM
Maintenance on listed systems has been completed.
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Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable from 8:00 AM CDT until 4:00 PM CDT on September 23, 2018 to allow for upgrades to the TACC core network hardware. Jobs will continue to run, but users will have no access to TACC services and systems until the upgrade is complete.
Stockyard $WORK status Tuesday, Sep 18 2018
Posted by David Littrell on Sep 18, 2018 5:12:14 PM
The Stockyard $WORK filesystem is currently not available, and administrators are working on it now. We will update when we have an ETA to it being back in production.
Updated on Sep 18, 2018 6:47:30 PM
The $WORK filesystem is back in production.
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The Stockyard $WORK filesystem is currently not available, and administrators are working on it now. We will update when we have an ETA to it being back in production.
C++ for C Programmers - October 5th, 2018 - 9am to 3pm CT
Posted by Jason Allison on Sep 11, 2018 3:21:57 PM
C++ can be considered as a superset of C, but this view often leads to un-idiomatic C++ programming. In this short course, we both show the new mechanisms of C++, and we explain what C mechanisms, while available, should no longer be used. The first half of this course covers mostly object-oriented...
C++ can be considered as a superset of C, but this view often leads to un-idiomatic C++ programming. In this short course, we both show the new mechanisms of C++, and we explain what C mechanisms, while available, should no longer be used.
The first half of this course covers mostly object-oriented programming and parameter passing with references; the second half covers advanced topics such as smart pointers, exceptions, iterators, lambdas, templates.
This course will be offered to in-person and webcast attendees. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in-person. Students are expected to be familiar with C syntax and should bring a laptop for lab exercises.
To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/
If you have any questions please contact me at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu
TACC Maintenance 16 September, 2018
Posted by Sergio Leal on Sep 5, 2018 10:28:22 AM
Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable from 8:00 AM CDT until 4:00 PM CDT on September 16, 2018 to allow for upgrades to the TACC core network hardware. Jobs will continue to run, but users will have no access to TACC services and systems until the upgrade is complete.
Updated on Sep 11, 2018 2:57:51 PM
Maintenance Postponed to 23 September, 2018
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Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable from 8:00 AM CDT until 4:00 PM CDT on September 16, 2018 to allow for upgrades to the TACC core network hardware. Jobs will continue to run, but users will have no access to TACC services and systems until the upgrade is complete.
Lonestar5 status July17, 2018
Posted by David Littrell on Jul 2, 2018 4:34:24 PM
Lonestar5 will be in maintenance on Tuesday the 17th to install Cray patches and field notices.
Updated on Jul 17, 2018 6:37:34 PM
Lonestar5 is out of maintenance and available for usage.
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Lonestar5 will be in maintenance on Tuesday the 17th to install Cray patches and field notices.
TACC Institute: Visualizing and Interacting with Data
Posted by Charlie Dey on Jul 11, 2018 2:36:39 PM
We're pleased to announce the next institute in TACC's Summer Institute Series, Visualizing and Interacting with Data, July 30 - August 3, 2018. Every dataset tells a story, in this institute, you will spend a week with TACC's visualization experts learning how to generate rich, informative...
We're pleased to announce the next institute in TACC's Summer Institute Series, Visualizing and Interacting with Data, July 30 - August 3, 2018.
Computational Techniques in Life Sciences Summer Institute
Posted by Charlie Dey on Jun 29, 2018 3:40:52 PM
July 16th - 20th, 2018 Announcing the next institute in TACC's Summer Institute Series: Computational Techniques in Life Sciences. Learn the basic skills necessary to develop and execute scientific workflows on large-scale systems, run parallel analyses, use Bash and Python to chain common life...
July 16th - 20th, 2018
Announcing the next institute in TACC's Summer Institute Series: Computational Techniques in Life Sciences.
Learn the basic skills necessary to develop and execute scientific workflows on large-scale systems, run parallel analyses, use Bash and Python to chain common life sciences applications together to form more complex workflows, and analyze result data in order to gain useful insights. Spend time one-on-one with TACC's Life Sciences Computing group discussing how to accelerate your existing research or how to start a new project by beginning with the best computational practices. The skills developed from this institute are vast and can be applied to various other domain sciences.
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/institutes/computational-techniques-for-life-sciences
Lonestar5 Status 27 June 2018
Posted by Mitchell Collins-Bailey on Jun 27, 2018 9:59:24 AM
Lonestar5 queues have been suspended and we are working on the networking problems at the moment. The system will be restored as soon as possible.
Updated on Jun 27, 2018 2:51:07 PM
Lonestar5 is back in production.
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Lonestar5 queues have been suspended and we are working on the networking problems at the moment. The system will be restored as soon as possible.
TACC Institute: Data Intensive Computing and Machine Learning
Posted by Jason Allison on Jun 27, 2018 11:32:41 AM
July 16th - 20th, 2018 Want to gain more insight from your data? Is analyzing datasets too much for your favorite spreadsheet? Considering using machine learning to improve insights? Spend a week with TACC's data analysis experts learning about the latest tools and techniques for analyzing and...
July 16th - 20th, 2018
Want to gain more insight from your data? Is analyzing datasets too much for your favorite spreadsheet? Considering using machine learning to improve insights? Spend a week with TACC's data analysis experts learning about the latest tools and techniques for analyzing and processing your Big Data problems.
Try your hand at using R, Jupyter notebooks, Hadoop, and Spark with guided hands-on exercises, spend time one-on-one with our data analysis staff talking about your own projects and goals, and hear about the latest tools and research in Big Data.
For more information and access to registration, please visit the following link:
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/institutes/data-intensive-computing-machine-learning
TACC Institute: Parallel Programming Foundations
Posted by Jason Allison on May 18, 2018 4:38:30 PM
June 25th - June 29th, 2018 Ready to parallelize your software? Spend a week with TACC’s high performance computing experts learning to write parallel applications using OpenMP and MPI, profiling and optimizing sequential and parallel applications, debugging parallel software, developing software...
Updated on Jun 15, 2018 1:48:42 PM
We still have spaces available for the Parallel Programming Foundations Institute - June 25th through June 29th, 2018. Please register ASAP to avoid missing out on this opportunity.
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June 25th - June 29th, 2018
Ready to parallelize your software? Spend a week with TACC’s high performance computing experts learning to write parallel applications using OpenMP and MPI, profiling and optimizing sequential and parallel applications, debugging parallel software, developing software for many-core architectures, and more. Gain practical experience developing parallel applications with guided hands-on exercises, spend time with TACC experts one-on-one talking about your own research project goals and roadblocks, and hear from TACC staff, users, and collaborators about the latest trends, technologies, and research projects related to large-scale parallel computation.
Topics covered include:
- OpenMP SIMD Directives
- MPI Collectives
- Hybrid OpenMP/MPI Programming
- Profiling and Debugging
For more information and access to registration, please visit the following link:
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/institutes/parallel-programming-foundations
TACC Institute: Computational Science in the Cloud
Posted by Jason Allison on May 18, 2018 4:25:31 PM
June 4th - June 8th, 2018 Spend a week with TACC’s web and cloud computing experts learning about tools, techniques, and best practices for doing high throughput computing, using virtual machines, containers, and recipes to ensure that your runtime environment is reproducible, even if you need to...
Updated on May 29, 2018 10:14:07 AM
We still have spaces available for the Computational Science in the Cloud Institute. Please register ASAP to avoid missing out on this opportunity. The registration deadline for this event has been extended to May 30.
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June 4th - June 8th, 2018
Spend a week with TACC’s web and cloud computing experts learning about tools, techniques, and best practices for doing high throughput computing, using virtual machines, containers, and recipes to ensure that your runtime environment is reproducible, even if you need to scale out. Be prepared to take the lessons you learn at TACC back to your own research project with hands-on exercises and one-on-one time with our experts talking about the specifics of your own research project and goals. Hear about the latest tools and research in distributed and cloud computing with invited talks from fellow users, collaborators, and guests.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to Cloud Concepts
- Virtual Machine Construction using Jetstream
- Making API Calls in Python
- Docker & Singularity Containers
- Automated Deployment Tools
For more information and access to registration, please visit the following link:
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/education/institutes/computational-science-in-the-cloud
Stockyard WORK Status May 17 2018
Posted by Jacob Getz on May 17, 2018 2:28:47 PM
$WORK file-system is experiencing intermittent issues. This may cause some jobs to fail and /work calls to stall. Administrators are currently working to restore system functionality.
An additional announcement will be posted when $WORK is fully operational.
-TACC Team
Updated on May 17, 2018 3:40:46 PM
Work is back in full production. Please report any issues you encounter to the helpdesk.
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$WORK file-system is experiencing intermittent issues. This may cause some jobs to fail and /work calls to stall. Administrators are currently working to restore system functionality.
An additional announcement will be posted when $WORK is fully operational.
-TACC Team
LoneStar 5 Maintenance 8 May 2018
Posted by Mitchell Collins-Bailey on Apr 23, 2018 10:40:49 PM
LoneStar5 will not be available from 8 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 8 May 2018. Scheduler maintenance will be performed during this time
Updated on May 8, 2018 9:52:48 PM
Lonestar5 largemem nodes have returned to production.
Updated on May 8, 2018 5:45:07 PM
LoneStar5 has returned from maintenance. At this time, the largemem nodes are still being worked on and will return to production shortly.
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LoneStar5 will not be available from 8 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 8 May 2018. Scheduler maintenance will be performed during this time
Introduction To MPI Using The Interactive Parallelization Tool (IPT)
Posted by Jason Allison on May 7, 2018 1:05:37 PM
In parallel codes MPI (Message Passing Interface) is the predominant method for communicating data between the nodes of a compute cluster. It is widely used and performs well on a large variety of hardware platforms, and therefore a basic understanding of MPI programming is beneficial to anybody...
Lonestar5 Status 25 April 2018
Posted by Sergio Leal on Apr 25, 2018 11:58:56 AM
LoneStar5 has taken an unexpected power-down due to temperature and water problems. Administrators are working on resolving the problem.
Updated on Apr 25, 2018 1:36:20 PM
LoneStar5 queues have been reopened.
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LoneStar5 has taken an unexpected power-down due to temperature and water problems. Administrators are working on resolving the problem.