Announcements

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

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two Factor Authentication

Two Factor Authentication is now in operation for the Shaheen login nodes. If you have not already set up 2FA, please follow the instructions at https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/content/two-factor-authentication-shaheen to be able to login.

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.

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.

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.

KSL in the News

Our new Director - https://corelabs.kaust.edu.sa/News/jysoo-lee

Article on Shaheen II - http://insidehpc.com/2016/06/kaust-empowers-researchers-to-think-big/

Shaheen 2, ranked 10 in the new TOP500:

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.

RCAC Meeting

The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is 30th June 2016. Please note that the RCAC meetings are held once per month. Projects received on or before this deadline will be included in the agenda for the next RCAC meeting, scheduled to be held in July 2016. The detailed procedure and the forms are available here:

Maintenance Session Tuesday 31st May

The next maintenance session will be on Tuesday 31st May from 09:00 until 17:00. There will be no access to the system during this period.

Running watch on squeue

Some users are running a watch on squeue to monitor their jobs.

Please refrain from doing this as it places an increased load on the job scheduler.

If you need notice when a job is starting you can ask Slurm to do this within your job submission file, as follows:

Shaheen II power uncapped

Shaheen II power will be uncapped this weekend (Thursday 5:00 PM until Sunday 8:00 AM). Around 4,000 nodes will be available. The remaining 2,000 nodes will be drained and not available. This is to allow performance tuning and code execution without power restrictions on compute nodes. This session is open to all Shaheen II users.

RCAC Meeting

RCAC Meeting:

The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is 30th April 2016. Please note that the RCAC meetings are held once per month. Projects received on or before this deadline will be included in the agenda for the next RCAC meeting, scheduled to be held on 26th May 2016.

Tip of the week: Performance analysis in 10 steps

1) Connect to Shaheen II with -X:ssh -X username@shaheen.hpc.kaust.edu.sa

2) Load/unload the following modules:

KSL Workshop Series: Introduction to performance tools on the Cray XC40 supercomputer Shaheen II

Sunday, April 17
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Sea view room, Level 3, University Library

The Third Annual Workshop on "Accelerating Scientific Applications Using GPUs"

The KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory is co-organizing with NVIDIA, a leader in accelerated computing, a one day workshop on accelerating scientific applications using GPUs on Tuesday February 23rd, 2016 in the auditorium between building 2 and 3. To register to the event, please click here