CISL Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin delivers news about CISL’s high-performance computing environment, training opportunities, scheduled maintenance, and other events of interest to the user community.

Peer scheduling implemented on Cheyenne and Casper systems

October 20, 2021

CISL has implemented its new peer-scheduling capability so users can now submit PBS jobs from Cheyenne to Casper and from Casper to Cheyenne. Users can also now craft job-dependency rules between jobs on both systems. Review this new documentation to learn how to use the new capabilities. Also effective October 20, as announced last month, the Cheyenne system’s default behavior has been modifie...

Systems downtime for October 18-22

October 15, 2021

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

Tutorial: New job scheduling features for Cheyenne and Casper users

October 15, 2021

Recent upgrades to PBS Pro are bringing some changes and new capabilities to the scheduler, most prominently the addition of peer scheduling (coming October 20) between Cheyenne and Casper. Brian Vanderwende of CISL's Consulting Services Group will present a tutorial at 11 a.m. MST on Tuesday, November 9, to introduce new users to the scheduler and to update experienced users on these recent up...

Systems downtime for October 18-22

October 8, 2021 Updated: October 15, 2021

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

Peer scheduling coming October 20 to Cheyenne and Casper systems

October 13, 2021

The new peer-scheduling capability enabling users to submit jobs from Cheyenne to Casper and from Casper to Cheyenne will be available on Wednesday, October 20. Users will also be able to craft job-dependency rules between jobs on both systems. Documentation for how to use the new features will be available by Wednesday. Also as of October 20, as announced last month, CISL is changing the Cheye...

Cray Programming Environment available to help users prepare for Derecho

October 8, 2021

HPE has made a container image of its Cray Programming Environment (CPE) available to help users prepare for the 2022 delivery of the new Derecho supercomputer. Cheyenne and Casper users can launch CPE by running the crayenv command from either system's login nodes, then build and run applications within the containerized environment as described in this new CISL documentation. To build large a...