Announcements

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Power Capping

As you are aware the system was previously running with a power cap of 2200KW with occasional sessions without power capping but with a reduced number of nodes. 

With the approval of the RCAC is has been decided that we are going to trial an extended run with power capping off, this should mean that code may run faster and will also allow us to prepare a number of projects code to run at scale without capping.

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.

RCAC Meeting

The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is 31st May 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 June 2016. The detailed procedure and the forms are available in the following webpage.