To all taki users,

Our work bringing the taki cluster environment up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the cluster environment.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.

Roy Prouty

HPC System Administrator

To all taki users,

On Tuesday August 24, 2021 the taki cluster environment will be down and inaccessible from 5pm - 9pm EDT. 

Once our work is done on Tuesday, we will make another announcement.

As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.

Roy Prouty

HPC System Administrator

This is just an update regarding a new set of software packages now available on the taki cluster environment, CDO. 

From the requestor and main CDO site (https://code.mpimet.mpg.de/projects/cdo/).

CDO is a set of command line operations geared toward analysis of geophysical data, especially from climate numerical weather prediction models.  Operations include, among many others, horizontal re-gridding and vertical interpolation, various forms of temporal averaging, and the addition or subtraction of variables across different files. They can be applied to netCDF4 and GRIB files. Users outside of the atmospheric science community may find many of the CDO operations useful, but note that some will only work if the data includes geographical dimensions.

For information on loading CDO and associated modules into your user environment, run `module spider CDO`.

Thanks for reading,

See the link for further details.

To all taki users,

Our work bringing the taki cluster environment up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the cluster environment.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.

Roy Prouty

HPC System Administrator

To all taki users,

On Tuesday August 3, 2021 the taki cluster environment will be down and inaccessible from 5pm - 9pm EDT. This downtime is to apply some patches whose installation may be disruptive to normal use of the cluster environment.  

Once all of our work is done on Tuesday, we will make another announcement.

As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.

Roy Prouty

HPC System Administrator

To all taki users,

DoIT Staff have completed the scheduled downtime for the taki cluster environment. Users can begin using the computing hardware.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions. 

If you notice an issue, please submit a descriptive RT Help Ticket via the following link:

Thank you for all for your patience,

Roy Prouty

System Administrator, UMBC HPCF

The one good thing from this downtime is should resolve the problem of logging into nodes while jobs are running.

Once all of our work is done, we will make another announcement.

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Randy Philipp

HPC SysAdmin

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,

We are happy to share the news that HPCF is able to extend the CPU cluster in taki by 17 new nodes. DoIT has placed the purchase order last week.

We have to thank 10 faculty from 9 departments and research centers in all 3 colleges at UMBC for their community spirit and ability to help us all with this extension, namely:

CNMS:

Joe Bennett (Chemistry) 3 nodes,

Pengwang Zhai (Physics) 4 nodes,

Larrabee Strow (Physics) 1 node,

Matthias Gobbert (Mathematics and Statistics) 2 nodes

including one funded by Jerimy Polf (UMB School of Medicine),

COEIT:

Tyler Josephson (CBEE) 3 nodes,

Curtis Menyuk (CSEE) 1 node,

Chuck Eggleton (Mechanical Engineering) 1 node,

CAHSS:

Matt Baker (GES) 1 node,

Lee Boot (IRC and IS) 1 node.

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,

This message starts with the usual reminder to send me references to publications that used HPCF and its cluster taki, so that we can post them as products of the NSF funding and the administration's support.  Students, if you are graduating, please send me the title of your thesis, since those are a particular example of the community support.

But my request goes farther this time: The Faculty Senate passed the Faculty Senate Open Access Resolution (https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/c.php?g=728911&p=5872742), and this supports providing free access to our work in an archive called MD-SOAR (https://mdsoar.org/) for open access to the public.

Michelle Flinchbaugh <flinchba@umbc.edu> from the AOK Library has copied over those publications from our HPCF publications page that had actual PDF files attached.

If you have preprints of your past work, whose reference we might already have on the HPCF publications page, please send them to me.  This would improve our publications page and immensely help the Library to expand the work in MD-SOAR, which in turn raises visibility for your work and for UMBC.

I find this a very worthwhile effort, with support from the Faculty Senate, and we can all help and profit from this visibility. You can also copy Michelle, of course, for questions or to send the PDFs. My offer to collect them at HPCF first just tries to help out.

I would much appreciate your help with this initiative. If you have the PDF files already on your own publication page, please just let me know.

Matthias Gobbert, Mathematics and Statistics, gobbert@umbc.edu

(Chair of the HPCF Governance Committee and PI of the MRI grants to HPCF)