The autoreply.lbl.gov server which runs the autoreply/vacation message service was down for about 2 minutes starting on 12/16 at 7PM for necessary infrastructure maintenance.
Any messages sent to @autoreply.bl.gov addresses during the outage have been delivered since the outage has completed.
Smartsheet will be offline on December 10, 2016 from 5:00 PM Pacific to 9 PM Pacific for system improvements.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, San Diego, is making major high-performance computing resources available to the UC community. This program, HPC@UC, is being offered in partnership with the UC Vice Chancellors of Research as well as campus CIOs. Awards under this program are intended to help UC researchers expand their overall research program. Specifically, this program is designed to:
- Broaden the base of UC researchers who use advanced computing
- Seed promising computational research Facilitate collaborations between SDSC and UC researchers
- Give UC researchers access to cyberinfrastructure that complements what is available at their campus
- Help UC researchers be successful when pursuing larger allocation requests through NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment program (XSEDE), and other national computing programs
- Comet supercomputer: A ~2 PFlop/s systems featuring 1,944 nodes, each with two 12-core Intel Haswell processors, 128 GB memory and 320 GB of flash storage; 36 GPU nodes each with two NVIDIA K80 GPGPUs; and 4 large memory nodes, each with 4 Intel Haswell processors, and 1.5 TB of memory;
- Gordon supercomputer: A ~340 Tflop/s system featuring 1,024 two-socket nodes with Intel Sandy Bridge processors and 64 GB memory/node; and 300 TB of high performance flash memory;
- Data Resources: Over 7 PB of high-speed storage made available via Lustre parallel file systems, as either short term Performance Storage used for temporary files, or long term, non-purged Project Storage that persists for the life of the project. A Durable Storage resource provides a second copy of all data in Project Storage file system;
- Applications: A large installed base of applications for HPC and big data analytics;
- Expertise: SDSC staff have broad expertise in the application of advanced computing and stand ready to assist you in making the best use of these resources for your research.
Trial Accounts on Comet: Before submitting an allocation request to HPC@UC, you may also want to consider requesting a Trial account on SDSC’s Comet system. These are allocations for 1000 core-hours and are intended for very quick assessment of Comet to see if it meets your needs. These requests are fulfilled within 2 working days. You are eligible for an HPC@UC allocation even if you already have a Trial account. Eligibility and Review
- Applications may request up to 1M core-hours of computing, associated data storage, and access to SDSC expertise to assist their research team. Awards are active for one year.
- Applicants must not have an active award in the NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery (XSEDE) program.
- The expectation is that these awards will lead to larger, formal allocation requests on national HPC systems that are available through the XSEDE program. SDSC staff will assist in developing these allocation applications.
- Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Applicants will be notified within 10 business days of the review decision.
Eligibility and Review
- Applications may request up to 1M core-hours of computing, associated data storage, and access to SDSC expertise to assist their research team. Awards are active for one year.
- Applicants must not have an active award in the NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery (XSEDE) program.
- The expectation is that these awards will lead to larger, formal allocation requests on national HPC systems that are available through the XSEDE program. SDSC staff will assist in developing these allocation applications.
- Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Applicants will be notified within 10 business days of the review decision.
HelloSign will experience a planned outage to upgrade key aspects of their infrastructure on Saturday, November 19th starting at 10pm Pacific, lasting for approximately 1 hour.
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Jupyter Notebook service to the Lawrencium cluster.
Jupyter Notebook is a useful web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. It can also be used to organize your existing data flow, compute, visualization, documentation, as well as publication, into a single workflow and we've extended Juypterhub so that it can now leverage the Lawrencium cluster resource in order to support code needing high performance computing and to reduce turnaround time.
Lawrencium users can go to our online documentation see how to get started. In the next several months we will continue to develop and add new features to the Jupyter Notebook service, so please stay tuned! As always, feedback, comments, implementation suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, are all welcome (to [email protected])!
Happy crunching!
The Sympa mailing list server (lists.lbl.gov) upgrade is complete.
The Sympa mailing list server was offline due to a scheduled upgrade on Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 5 PM to 7:30 PM.
This outage impacted all mailing lists provided by lists.lbl.gov including all Level 1 email lists.
During the upgrade, Sympa lists was unavailable. Messages should be delivered when the the outage is complete.
This upgrade has been rescheduled for Thursday, November 3 at 5PM
The Sympa mailing list server (lists.lbl.gov) will be offline due to a scheduled upgrade on Thursday, November 3, 2016 from 5 PM to 8 PM.
This outage will impact all mailing lists provided by lists.lbl.gov including all Level 1 email lists.
During the upgrade, Sympa lists will be unavailable. Messages should be delivered when the the outage is complete.
The Sympa service will be upgraded to the most current version; the operating system on which the server runs will also be upgraded to make use of performance and security improvements.
When accessing software.lbl.gov from off-site or LBNL-Visitor wireless you might encounter an error page or apache test page.
Please be advised that issue will be resolved by Monday, 10/24/2016 in the meantime please access the page using VPN connection.
If you have questions or need assistance please contact the Help Desk at 510-486-4357
Biologists and neuroscientists at Stanford have standardized on Singularity for deploying and executing their BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) stack and bridging their development environments (desktops, workstations, and local servers) to traditional HPC. The workflows can now be distributed, archived and leveraged as well as run on any HPC resources that have Singularity installed. Stanford (among other sites) is now running these Singularity containers in production on their local HPC system (Sherlock) as well as on XSEDE resources like Comet at the San Diego Supercomputing Center and Stampede at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Developed by the IT Division HPC Services architect Gregory Kurtzer, Singularity facilitates application and workflow portability across different environments including HPC by allowing the user to package their applications, libraries, and operating environment into an image or container that can be run elsewhere. In HPC environments, Singularity containers have access to local and shared filesystems as well as having support for MPI. Users who develop their applications on their laptop or desktop now have a way to run their personal environment and applications on a HPC cluster.
Next week, there will be a presentation on Singularity at the IT Division’s LabTech 2016 event on Tuesday Oct 11 and also at the portable-hpc.net DOE Lab conference on Weds Oct 12.
Routine fire protection work led to an unscheduled major data center outage at approximately 11:45AM today Wed Oct 5. It will take a substantial amount of time to recover HPC systems. Return to service time not currently known.
Google experienced an issue where some users are unable to login to their Google Accounts. Google's product engineering team investigated and resolved this situation as of 9/15. For status of this issue from Google click here.
Google is currently experiencing issues with Google Slides.
For status on this issue from Google visit the Google Apps Status Dashboard.
If you are having an issue with Excel not opening downloads in Windows 10, you may need to change your protected view setting.
In Excel go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Protected View, and then uncheck "Enabled Protected View" for files originating from the Internet.
If you are still having any issues opening files, please contact the Help Desk at (510) 486-4357. (xHELP)
First Use of Tape Recorder in Radio
August 26, 1938
Radio station WQXR in New York City broadcasts a program using a tape recorder for the first time. The tape recorder used was the Phillips-Miller recording system, also known as Millertape, invented by James Arthur Miller.
(via http://thisdayintechhistory.com/)
The Birth of Linux
August 25, 1991
Linus Torvalds posts a message to the Internet newsgroup comp.os.minix with the subject line “What would you like to see most in minix?” This is the first announcement that he is working on an operating system that will one day become Linux.
(via http://thisdayintechhistory.com/)
