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KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 4th March

In this newsletter:

  • RCAC meeting
  • Shaheen Maintenance: 23rd of March and end of April
  • Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 4 March 2021, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM 5 March
  • AI users survey
  • Tip of the week: Use “timeout” command to automatically restart jobs
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Previous Announcements
  • Previous Tips

 

Shaheen Maintenance: 23rd of March and April

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 26th November 2020

In this newsletter:

  • RCAC meeting
  • Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 26th November 2020, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM 27th November
  • Maintenance Session
  • 7th KAUST-NVIDIA Workshop on Accelerating Scientific Applications using GPUs
  • Seminar on Overview on HPC Numerical Libraries & Success Stories
  • Tip of the week: Exclusive option for job step
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Previous Announcements
  • Previous Tips

 

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 1st October 2020

In this newsletter:

  • RCAC meeting
  • Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 1st October 2020, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM 2nd October
  • KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
  • Tip of the week: Running DDT in batch mode
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Previous Announcements
  • Previous Tips

 

RCAC meeting

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 22nd September 2020

In this newsletter:

  • Saudi National Day
  • RCAC meeting
  • Application License Server Maintenance by IT on Thursday, 1st October 2020, 8.00 PM to 4:00 AM 2nd October
  • KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
  • Tip of the week: Customising ssh
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Previous Announcements
  • Previous Tips

 

Saudi National Day

The 23rd and 24th September are KAUST holidays to celebrate Saudi National Day. We will be back to work on 27th September.

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 17th September 2020

In this newsletter:

  • RCAC meeting
  • KAUST supercomputer Shaheen II joins the fight against COVID-19
  • Tip of the week: Processing large data sets on Shaheen
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Previous Announcements
  • Previous Tips

 

RCAC meeting

The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is 30th September 2020. Please note that the RCAC meetings are held once per month. Projects received on or before the submission

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 18th June 2020

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.

 

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 11th June 2020

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.

 

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 4th June 2020

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

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 7th May 2020

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.

KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 23rd April 2020

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.