In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- Application License Server Maintenance by IT
- EID Holiday
- RCAC meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Filtering jobs in squeue
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
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In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- EID Holiday
- RCAC meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Using Burst Buffer for Complex Workflows
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
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In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- RCAC meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Making the best support request
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
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In this newsletter:
- RCAC meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Transferring large files with GLOBUS
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
RCAC meeting
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In this newsletter:
- RCAC meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Detecting memory leaks and errors with Valgrind4hpc tool
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
RCAC meeting
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In this newsletter:
- Programming Environment update on Shaheen in June 2020
- RCAC Meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Submitting Many Jobs At Once
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
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In this newsletter:
- Maintenance Session 22nd June
- RCAC Meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Memory report
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
Maintence Session 22nd June
Shaheen will be unavailable to run jobs for approximately 1 hour from 09:00 on the 22nd June to allow for an urgent update of the Slurm job scheduler.
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In this newsletter:
- Maintenance Session 22nd June
- KAUST Reasearch Team Wins 2020 GSC Award at ISC20
- RCAC Meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Fine tuning of job arrays
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
Maintence Session 22nd June
Shaheen will be unavailable to run jobs for approximately 1 hour from 09:00 on the 22nd June to allow for an urgent update of the Slurm job scheduler.
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In this newsletter:
- Application License Server Maintenance by IT
- RCAC Meeting
- Sixth KAUST-ANSYS Workshop
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: Why is my job still pending in the queue?
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 4th June 2020, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM 5th June
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In this newsletter:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics on Shaheen
- RCAC Meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week: The environment variable KAUST_FACILITY
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
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In this newsletter:
- RCAC Meeting
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- Tip of the Week:Creating & controling your module environment
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
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In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: Backup your important data from /scratch regularly
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
The maintenance session scheduled from 08:00 on Monday 11th May until 17:00 on Wednesday 13th May has now been cancelled. We will however be taking the opportunity to run some large scale jobs on Monday.
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In this newsletter:
- KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
- System Maintenance
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: Launching Containers on Shaheen
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
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In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: Cancelling a running job by its name
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
The next maintenance session will take place from 08:00 on Monday 11th May until 17:00 on Wednesday 13th May. There will be no access to the system during this period.
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In this newsletter:
- New release of Converge
- System Maintenance
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: Performance Variability
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
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In this newsletter:
System Maintenance
Tip of the Week: MacOS fixing the "can't set locale" message
RCAC meeting
Follow us on Twitter
Previous Announcements
Previous Tips
System Maintenance
The next maintenance session will take place from 08:00 on Monday 11th May until 17:00 on Wednesday 13th May. There will be no access to the system during this period.
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In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- Application License Server Maintenance by IT
- Tip of the Week: Large memory workloads on Shaheen and Neser
- RCAC meeting
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
The next maintenance session will take place from 08:00 on Monday 11th May until 17:00 on Wednesday 13th May. There will be no access to the system during this period.
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In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- Shaheen Job Generator
- Tip of the Week: My KSL
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
The next maintenance session will take place from 16:00 on Monday 16th October until 17:00 on Tuesday 17th October. There will be no access to the system during this period.
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In this newsletter:
- Transition of HPC Clusters and Disruption of Services
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- New command - sb_user
Transition of HPC Clusters and Disruption of Services
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In this newsletter:
- Transition of HPC Clusters and Disruption of Services
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Transition of HPC Clusters and Disruption of Services
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In this newsletter:
- Annual Power Maintenance 20-25th April
- KAUST-ANSYS Workshop on 16th April 2017
- Shaheen Project proposals
- Reminder of purge policies on Lustre
- Tip of the Week: Checking your Shaheen account expiry date
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Annual Power Maintenance 20-25th April 2017
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In this newsletter:
- External connectivity restored
- Annual Power Maintenance 20-25th April
- KAUST-ANSYS Workshop on 16th April 2017
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: debug and 72hours queue
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
External connectivity restored
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In this newsletter:
- KAUST-ANSYS Workshop on 16th April 2017
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: Using Python
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
KAUST-ANSYS Workshop on 16th April 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Computer Lab Room, Level 3, University Library
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In this newsletter:
- HPC Training Tutorials
- Tip of the Week
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
HPC Training Tutorials
Two days of HPC training tutorials are organized on 15th and 16th March at KAUST:
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In this newsletter:
- Tape Restore Temporarily Unavailable
- Shaheen Operating on Reduced Capacity
- HPC Training Tutorials
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Tape Restore Temporarily Unavailable
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In this newsletter:
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Shaheen Operating on Reduced Capacity
- RCAC Meeting
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
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In this newsletter:
- Shaheen returned to service and now fully operational
- Maintenance Session Tuesday 7th March 2017
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Shaheen Operating on Reduced Capacity
- RCAC Meeting
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Shaheen returned to service and now fully operational
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In this newsletter:
- Purge policies on Lustre project filesystem
- Shaheen Queuing Policy
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Shaheen Operating on Reduced Capacity
- RCAC Meeting
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Purge policies on Lustre project filesystem
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In this newsletter:
- Shaheen Queuing Policy
- Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
- RCAC Meeting
- Invitation to the fourth annual Workshop on Accelerating Scientific Applications Using GPUs
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Shaheen Queuing Policy
In order to provide more functionality on Shaheen and at the request of representations made to the RCAC, some changes have been made to the queuing policy:
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In this newsletter:
- Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
- Invitation to the fourth annual Workshop on Accelerating Scientific Applications Using GPUs
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 31st January from 08:00 until 12:00 on Wednesday 1st February. There will no access to the system during this period.
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In this newsletter:
- Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Shaheen II Burst Buffer Early Users Access
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 31st January from 08:00 until 12:00 on Wednesday 1st February. There will no access to the system during this period.
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Happy New Year
The KSL team would like to wish all of our users a Happy New Year.
In this newsletter:
- Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
- HPC Saudi Arabia 2017: 13th - 15th March 2017
- Shaheen II Burst Buffer Early Users Access
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Tips
Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st January 2017
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 31st January from 08:00 until 12:00 on Wednesday 1st February. There will no access to the system during this period.
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Shaheen Service Resumed
Work on the power and cooling in the data centre is now complete. Shaheen has been returned to full service with all nodes available and no power-capping in place.
Neser Last Day of Operation
Please note this system is now decommissioned.
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System Maintenance
There will be an extended down time of all systems from 15:00 on 30th November until 17:00 on 6th December. This is for an upgrade to the power and cooling to allow Shaheen to be run at full capacity without power capping. During this period we will not be able to read or respond to any emails sent to help@hpc.kaust.edu.sa.
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System Maintenance
There will be an extended down time of all systems from 15:00 on 30th November until 17:00 on 6th December. This is for an upgrade to the power and cooling to allow Shaheen to be run at full capacity without power capping. During this period we will not be able to read or respond to any emails sent to help@hpc.kaust.edu.sa.
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System Maintenance
There will be an extended down time of all systems from 15:00 on 30th November until 17:00 on 6th December. This is for an upgrade to the power and cooling to allow Shaheen to be run at full capacity without power capping. During this period we will not be able to read or respond to any emails sent to help@hpc.kaust.edu.sa.
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System Maintenance
There will be an extended down time of all systems from 15:00 on 30th November until 17:00 on 6th December. This is for an upgrade to the power and cooling to allow Shaheen to be run at full capacity without power capping. During this period we will not be able to read or respond to any emails sent to help@hpc.kaust.edu.sa.
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Data Centre Firewall Upgrade
On 27th October between 17:00 and 21:00, KAUST IT will be upgrading the SCC firewall. As Shaheen is behind this firewall, there will be intermittent access during the upgrade period.
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Data Centre Firewall Upgrade
On 27th October between 17:00 and 21:00, KAUST IT will be upgrading the SCC firewall. As Shaheen is behind this firewall, there will be intermittent access during the upgrade period.
System Maintenance *Updated*
The next scheduled maintenance session on Shaheen requires an extended outage outage from 12:00 on Monday 24th October until 17:00 on Tuesday 25th October. There will be no access to the system during this period.
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Data Centre Firewall Upgrade
On 27th October between 17:00 and 21:00, KAUST IT will be upgrading the SCC firewall. As Shaheen is behind this firewall, there will be intermittent access during the upgrade period.
System Maintenance *Updated*
The next scheduled maintenance session on Shaheen requires a 24 hour outage from 17:00 on Monday 24th October until 17:00 on Tuesday 25th October, there will be no access to the system during this period.
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System Maintenance
The next scheduled maintenance session on Shaheen is Tuesday 25th October from 08:00 until 17:00, there will be no access to the system during this period.
There will be an extended down time of all systems from 15:00 on 30th November until 17:00 on 6th December. This is for an upgrade to the power and cooling to allow Shaheen to be run at full capacity without power capping. During this period we will not be able to read or respond to any emails sent to help@hpc.kaust.edu.sa.
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SCC UPS Battery and Capacitor Replacement
Shaheen will be running at a slightly reduced capacity between 10th and 21st September whilst the Data Centre team works on UPS improvements.
Maintenance Session Tuesday 20th September
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 20th September from 08:00 until 17:00. There will no access to the system during this period.
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Maintenance Session Tuesday 20th September
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 20th September from 08:00 until 17:00. There will no access to the system during this period.
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Maintenance Session Tuesday 20th September
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 20th September from 08:00 until 17:00. There will no access to the system during this period.
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Maintenance Session Tuesday 20th September
The next scheduled maintenance on Shaheen will be Tuesday 20th September from 08:00 until 17:00. There will no access to the system during this period.
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Neser Last Day of Operation
Please note this system will be decommissioned on 30th November 2016.
After this date all data in /project and /home will be deleted. Please ensure that you have transferred any data you wish to retain.
Shaheen unavailable Sunday 7th August
Shaheen will be unavailable from 08:30 on 7th August for approximately 4 hours whilst it is being rebooted.
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Maintenance Session Tuesday 2nd August
The next maintenance session will be on Tuesday 2nd August from 09:00 until 17:00. There will be no access to the system during this period.
Running watch on squeue
In the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter of 18th May, we requested all Shaheen users to refrain from running watch on squeue. Unfortunately, this instruction went unobserved by some users, placing an unacceptable load on the SLURM scheduler. We have therefore taken measures to prevent usage of the watch command.
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Maintenance Session Tuesday 2nd August
The next maintenance session will be on Tuesday 2nd August from 09:00 until 17:00. There will be no access to the system during this period.
KSL Workshop Series: Introduction to Parallel Computing on Shaheen II
Thursday, 14th July from 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
SeaView room, Level 3, University Library
The aim of this course is to give new users of Shaheen II an introductory overview of the system and its usage, and to help them make efficient use of their allocated resources.
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