CISL Daily Bulletin

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Systems downtime for September 13 - 17

September 13, 2021

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, HPSS, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

CISL’s online makeover moving along!

September 10, 2021

Here’s a quick update on the online makeover we mentioned recently: We just added our allocation request forms to the Advanced Research Computing portal, where they joined the Daily Bulletin and our HPC system status reports. Still in the works and coming soon: • The CISL website’s new look and feel is moving along, and construction is underway. • Supercomputer user documentation will be movin...

Registration open: Free Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium September 29

September 8, 2021

Registration is open and free for the annual Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, which will be held via videoconferencing from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, September 29. The symposium is open to HPC professionals, graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and other researchers. Speakers will include: • Margaret Martonosi, Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science & Engineering...

Writing batch job output to restricted storage space is no longer permitted

September 7, 2021

CISL has determined that jobs attempting to write log and error output to restricted targets such as /dev/null caused recent PBS server issues that adversely affected Cheyenne and Casper performance. Preventive measures are now in place to reject such jobs. Other invalid output targets include, but are not limited to, /dev/shm, /var/tmp, and /var/spool/pbs. The error message users will receive ...

Systems downtime for September 6 - 10

September 7, 2021

None planned for Cheyenne, Casper, Glade, HPSS, Campaign Storage, Quasar, Stratus, or JupyterHub.

Deadline extended to September 10 for university ASD proposals

September 2, 2021 Updated: September 3, 2021

The deadline for submitting university Accelerated Scientific Discovery (ASD) proposals for projects to run on Derecho has been extended to September 10. Derecho will become operational in the first half of 2022. See the ASD submission instructions for details. The ASD program is a unique opportunity for a small group of large-scale computational projects to have nearly exclusive use of the Der...