May 2015

Grace Cluster Back Online

All storage and nodes as part of the Grace expansion are available for use. An additional 90 general use nodes are available as well as an additional 500 TB of storage.   Dedicated hardware is also available and details have been communicated directly to the group leaders.

25% of Life Scientists Will Require HPC in 2015 via HPCWire

Life science research has long been compute-intensive but requirements have largely been satisfied with traditional workstations and simple clusters. That’s changing: “Roughly 25 percent of life scientists, and this includes bench-level scientists, will require HPC capabilities in 2015, few of whom have ever used a command line,” said Ari Berman, GM of Government Services, the BioTeam consulting firm.

Data Matters: Data Science Summer Workshop Series

The Data Matters: Data Science Summer Workshop Series is a week-long series of classes for researchers, data analysts, and other individuals who wish to increase their skills in data studies and integrate data science methods into their research designs and skill sets. Both one- and two-day courses will be offered from June 22 to 26, 2015 and run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Participants are welcome to register for one, two, or three classes.

CONTINUED DELAY: Grace Cluster and GPFS Filesytem

The Grace Cluster and GPFS Filesystem coming back online has been delayed.  The cluster has been experiencing network problems and so far the issue has been narrowed to the storage network.   There is no impact to the underlying filesystem or storage of data.

The team will continue to addess the issue over the weekend and will continue to post updates to the website as more information is available.  At this time we are not expecting resolution before Monday.

Power Outage at West Campus

A brief power outage at West Campus resulted in bringing many Omega Cluster nodes offline.  The cluster has been restored and is currently running however jobs may have been impacted.  If you are currently using the Omega cluster we are advising you to check your jobs to determine if they need to be restarted.