Announcements

XSEDE HPC Workshop: MPI

The registration page for the XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop Series - February 9-10 - MPI session is up.

The portal registration page can be found here: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/456/sessi...

If there is enough interest, KSL will investigate the possibility of streaming this course live in the Library computer room next Tuesday and Wednesday.

RCAC Meeting

The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is 31st January 2016. Please note that the RCAC meetings are held once per month.

Annual Power Maintenance

Due to the annual power maintenance in the data centre, all of the systems will be unavailable from 08:00 on Thursday 11th February until approximately 10:00 on Monday 15th February.

Annual Power Maintenance

Due to the annual power maintenance in the data centre, all of the systems will be unavailable from 08:00 on Thursday 11th February until approximately 10:00 on Monday 15th February.

XSEDE HPC Workshop: OpenMP

The registration page for the XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop Series - January 20th - OpenMP session is up.
The portal registration page can be found here:
https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/454/sessi...
If there is enough interest, KSL will investigate the possibility of streaming this course live in the Library computer room on the 20th of January.

XSEDE HPC Workshop: OpenMP

The registration page for the XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop Series - January 20th - OpenMP session is up.
The portal registration page can be found here:

https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar/-/training-user/class/454/sessi...

If there is enough interest, KSL will investigate the possibility of streaming this course live in the Library computer room on the 20th of January.

Firewall Upgrade

Please note the following alert from KAUST IT services:

Firewall upgrade has been scheduled on Thursday 31st December 2015 from 17:00 to 21:00 AST.

All services hosted will face intermittent downtime during the upgrade. These services include KSL website and may affect your login to Shaheen II and Neser.

RCAC Meeting

The deadline for project submission for the next RCAC meeting is Thursday 31st December 2015. Please note that RCAC meeting are held every month.

RCAC Meeting

The next scheduled RCAC (Research Computing Allocation Committee) meeting is Thursday 17th December.

Retirement of Neser and Associated Scratch Storage

As previously announced, Neser will be decommissioned on January and the last date that jobs will be scheduled to run is 31st December 2015.

We will continue to have the Shaheen I/Neser ‘home' and ‘project' filesystems available until at least 31st July 2016. However, please note that the ‘scratch' filesystem will be taken off-line and deleted on the 1st February 2016.

Shaheen II Filesystem

We are pleased to confirm that the problem affecting the filesystem availability has been resolved and the system is fully available for use.

Maintenance Session 1st December 2015

The next maintenance session on Shaheen II will be on Tuesday 1st December from 12:00 until 17:00.

XSEDE HPC Workshop: OpenACC

The registration page for the XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop Series - December 3 - OpenACC session is up.

The portal registration page can be found here:

SLURM workq_high and workq_low

Please note that workq_high and workq_low will be removed from the system on the 1st December. If you have either of these partitions specified in your job control file, they should be removed. As workq is the default partition, this does not need to be specified.

Neser Last Day of Service

Please note this system will be decommissioned in January, the last day that any job will be able to run is 31st December 2015.

We are pleased to confirm that Shaheen was brought back online at 08:00 this morning and is fully available for use.