April HPCF Newsletter

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:13:11 -0400
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Hi everyone,

I'm writing to give a brief update on the status of a few projects related to the UMBC HPCF and Research Computing.

System Status

The chip HPC is now operating normally and is fully operational.

Updates: To find everything you need related to HPC go to our updated website!

On the HPCF website you can find user documentation and request help.

A new tab, “User Support” has been added to the top-level menu bar of the HPCF Webpage. Under this tab, you can find “Request Help”, “Office Hours”, and “User Documentation”.

1. The “Request Help” tab takes you directly to the RT Ticket form for Research Computing. Please use the “High Performance Cluster” option for help with chip and “Research Storage” for help with storage allocations.

2. The “Office Hours” tab takes you to a page describing a service now formally offered by the DoIT Research Computing team. You can sign-up for an in-person or virtual meeting with a team member for help navigating the new chip cluster or other HPC-related questions.

3. The “User Documentation” tab takes you directly to the Research Computing portion of the university wiki deployment wiki.umbc.edu .

Pro Tip: In addition to the above, we encourage all users to read through our “Getting Started with chip” wiki page. If you notice an issue with the user documentation, please open an RT Ticket and use the “Suggest a change to Research Computing” to raise the issue with the Research Computing team.

Trainings: Getting Started with chip

The DoIT Research Computing team has scheduled a series of “Getting Started with chip”. These events are all scheduled on the HPCF myUMBC group. Each of these events are identical. This series is meant for all users but especially those who were users on the ada or taki clusters. The format of each is hybrid and each will run for one hour. There will be a short tutorial, and a portion of the time will be dedicated to Q & A.

For more information or to let us know you’re coming, please see the HPCF myUMBC group Events page.

SIG

The first SIG-CPU meeting was held March 24th. The first SIG-GPU meeting is scheduled for April 18th. See the SIG Webpage for more information.

Publications

If you have any publications, presentations, theses, or other works that made use of the campus cluster(s), please submit an RT Ticket with bibliographic information so that we can accurately reflect this work in our records and on the HPCF Website.

Need Help?

As always, please communicate any issues/questions to the Research Computing RT Queue (hpcf.umbc.edu > User Support > Request Help).

Roy Prouty

Asst Dir Research Computing, DoIT