October 2015
Power Outage - Grace / Omega
Just after midnight on December 27, 2015, a power outage occurred that affected the Omega and Grace clusters. Services were fully restored at 9:30am the same morning. Users are encouraged to check any of their jobs running at that time and report any issues to hpc@yale.edu.
Heart Scan Can Fine-Tune Risk Estimate for Patients Considering Statins
Treatment guidelines suggest that nearly half of those over age 40 — nearly 50 million people in the United States — at least consider a cholesterol-lowering statin to reduce heart attack risk.
Speak Up: NSF Seeks Science Drivers for Exascale and the NSCI
(From HPCWire) NSF has mounted outreach to the HPC community seeking for input from the HPC community on a wide range of issues relating to exascale computing and the objectives of the National Strategic Computing Initiative. This is a critical activity, particularly given that the NSCI Executive Council is mandated to develop a formal implementation plan within 90 days of the Executive Order issued on July 29 of this year.
Excerpted here are portions of the NSF request as well as a few details from the actual RFI.
Yale Researchers Use TACC, SDSC Supercomputing Resources to Study Vascular Disease
Oct. 2 via HPCWire — Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a vascular disease that affects tens of thousands of people around the world each year. The disease occurs most commonly in men over 60, and is characterized by a dilation of the abdominal aortic wall and often a persistent blood clot.