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- Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 29th July 2021
- Policy reminder: Account sharing NOT allowed
- RCAC meeting
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Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 29th July 2021, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM 30th July
Due to a scheduled maintenance of the Application License Server by IT on Thursday, 29 July 2021, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM next day, access to the below applications will be impacted on Shaheen and Neser: Ansys, AtomistixToolKit (ATK), Converge, Eclipse, Intel Compilers, Material Studio, Mathematica, MATLAB, Tecplot and Totalview. During these maintenance windows, you may face issues with Intel at compilation and errors with the application at runtime.
Policy reminder: Account sharing NOT allowed
Once granted, User IDs must NOT be used by anyone other than the person to whom that User ID was issued, as detailed in the Terms and Conditions signed and accepted by the users and PIs. If this condition is breached, the user account will be disabled and PIs, RCAC chair and KAUST IT security will be notified.
RCAC meeting
The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is July 31st 2021. Please note that the RCAC meetings are held once per month. Projects received on or before the submission deadline will be included in the agenda for the subsequent RCAC meeting.The detailed procedures, updated templates and forms are available here: https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/account-applications
Reminder about Terms and Conditions regarding Research Publications:
- Whenever the results of research conducted on the HPC systems at KAUST are published, or the research involved personnel from KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL), Principal Investigators (PIs) and authors are required to acknowledge the usage of the HPC systems at KAUST and/or the involvement of KSL personnel in their research in their publications. For example, the following statement could be used: “For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
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