We are pleased to announce that the GPU component of Frontera - 90 nodes each with 4 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 - is now in production. Users may utilize these nodes via the “rtx” queue for production runs or the “rtx-dev” queue for development efforts.Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.

Access to all TACC systems will be unavailable on 15 December, 2019 from 8:00 AM CDT until 4:00 PM CDT.  This is 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.

Frontera will not be available from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 3 December 2019. System maintenance will be performed during this time.

 Resources Affected : Frontera

 Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting.

We are pleased to announce the HPC Application Tutorial: VASP on Frontera and Stampede2 Training being held on December 5th, 2019 from 1pm to 4pm CT. This new training module helps beginner and intermediate users of the VASP software package to carry out calculations with desirable performance and efficient usage of resources on TACC systems. It covers basic procedures for running VASP on TACC systems like Frontera and Stampede2, including:

- how to use a TACC supercomputer,
- how to gain access to the TACC installed VASP software environment,
- how to build VASP in licensed user's accounts for debugging, and
- how to build VASP in licensed user’s accounts with 3rd-party extensions.

The training also introduces the general steps for determining the task topology for optimal performance and scaling of VASP jobs under the TACC computing environment. Furthermore, we present and explain some of the most common issues and solutions to help users save effort in troubleshooting VASP related errors.

This training focuses on the system and computing environment aspects and how to run VASP efficiently on TACC systems. It is not a tutorial for researchers on how to use VASP to solve science problems. Users need to refer VASP manual and forum for that purpose.

Registration for this event closes at 1pm CT on December 4th, 2019. To register and for more information please visit:
https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact me at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

TACC’s Ranch archival system will be down for maintenance on November 22nd from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CST. We will be performing some hardware maintenance on our disk systems.

 Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.

 https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting

The /work filesystem experienced a hardware problem with one of the storage controllers that began around 7:30 Central this morning and impacted a portion of the filesystem.   The problem was resolved at 9:00AM and the filesystem has resumed normal operation.   User processes may have experienced hangs or pauses trying to access files in /work during this time.

Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting

The large system run period has been extended until Wednesday.  We are working with several PRAC groups to run and debug large system jobs. We will be opportunistically running smaller/shorter jobs from the queue as we are able through Wednesday, and then normal queueing will resume.

Frontera will not be available from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, 5 November 2019. System maintenance will be performed during this time.

Resources Affected: Frontera 

Please submit any questions you have via the TACC User Portal.

https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting

We are pleased to announce that TACC will be participating as a satellite site for the XSEDE HPC Workshop OpenMP - November 5, 2019. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming. Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using OpenMP.

Tentative Agenda

Tuesday, November 5
10:00 AM CT Welcome
10:15 AM CT Computing Environment
10:30 AM CT It’s a Multi-core World
11:00 PM CT Intro to OpenMP
12:00 PM CT Lunch break
1:00 PM CT Intro Cont.
3:15 PM CT OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
4:00 PM CT Adjourn

If you are in the Austin area and are able to attend the event here at TACC, please visit the following address for more information and to register:
https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/1903/session/3346 

The Matlab license server serving TACC systems will be under maintenance this Thursday (Oct 3rd, 2019) from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

The license service will be intermittently unavailable during the maintenance.

We are please to announce that TACC will be participating as a satellite site for the the XSEDE HPC Workshop, Big Data on October 1st and 2nd, 2019.

Agenda

Tuesday, October 1
10:00 AM CT Welcome
10:25 AM CT Intro to Big Data
11:00 AM CT Hadoop
11:30 AM CT Intro to Spark
12:00 PM CT Lunch break
1:00 PM CT Spark
3:45 PM CT Bridges: A Big Data Platform
4:00 PM CT Adjourn

Wednesday, October 2
10:00 AM CT Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
12:00 PM CT Lunch break
1:00 PM CT Deep Learning with Tensorflow
4:00 PM CT Adjourn

If you are in the Austin area and are able to attend one or both days of the event here at TACC, please visit the following address for more information and to register:

The Visualization Laboratory on main campus will be closed Monday, September 02 and Tuesday, September 03 due to the Labor Day holiday and the Frontera dedication proceedings. We will re-open Wednesday, Sept 04 for normal hours. For any immediate assistance please contact foss@tacc.utexas.edu or asolis@tacc.utexas.edu.

We are pleased to announce the C++ for C Programmers Training being held on September 13th, 2019 from 9am to 5pm CT.

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. It will be pointed which features are specific to the C++14 and C++17 standards.

This training will be available to both in-person and remote attendees via webcast. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in-person.

To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact me at jasona@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

Last chance to register (deadline Aug 30) and submit an abstract for presentation (deadline Aug 16) at the TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers (TACCSTER) being held on September 26-27, 2019 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas.

TACCSTER is a meeting of scientists, engineers and scholars from across the state of Texas who use, and would like to use, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to advance their research goals. This meeting will be an opportunity for you to:

     * Showcase your ongoing research involving TACC resources
     * Attend and participate in Birds-of-a-Feather panel discussions
     * Learn new and useful computing skills from a variety of tutorials
     * Network with other Texas-based researchers
     * Hear information about the latest TACC systems and services

To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact taccster@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

Frontera will be unavailable due to a scheduled maintenance from 8:00am - 7:30pm (CST) on Tuesday, 30 July 2019.

We are pleased to announce the second TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers (TACCSTER) being held on September 26-27, 2019.

TACCSTER is a meeting of scientists, engineers and scholars from across the state of Texas who use, and would like to use, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to advance their research goals. This meeting will be an opportunity for you to showcase your ongoing research involving TACC resources, attend and participate in Birds-of-a-Feather panel discussions, learn new and useful computing skills from a variety of tutorials, network with other Texas-based researchers, and hear information about the latest TACC systems and services.

The meeting will be held on September 26-27, 2019 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, Texas.

To register and for more information please visit: https://learn.tacc.utexas.edu/

Please contact taccster@tacc.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

Are you in need of highly parallel computing at an unprecedented scale? TACC is currently deploying NSF’s new flagship system Frontera, which will serve the ever growing needs of the scientific community. We invite you to join us at TACC for a full day of presentations and discussions focused on Frontera’s outstanding capabilities. We will introduce the system and its new and innovative components, and will discuss how to optimally compile, launch, and execute scientific applications at large scale. Much emphasis will be put on the description of available MPI stacks and on tuning MPI and hybrid (MPI+OpenMP) applications via environment variables. The schedule will allow for many opportunities to interact with TACC staff and to discuss general and/or user specific topics. This event is open to the large early-user community that is already using Frontera, and to any current or future user of TACC resources.

This training will be available to both in-person and remote attendees via webcast. Local participants are strongly encouraged to attend in-person.

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

The Visualization Laboratory on main campus will be closed Thursday July04 and Friday July05 due to the holiday and subsequent limited staff the following day. We will re-open Monday July 08 for normal hours. For any immediate assistance please contact foss@tacc.utexas.edu or asolis@tacc.utexas.edu.

The Frontera website is now available. 

TACC experienced a temporary network outage on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 from 16:01 to 16:14. Jobs should have continued to run. Apologies for the inconvenience.