Silver Latency
We are noticing and getting reports of general slowness on the rhino & gizmo nodes. The underlying issue is the silver storage platform which hosts /fh/f...
Scientific Computing Announcements
April Maintenance
On Sunday, 27 April 2025, SciComp will be performing maintenance on systems in the Rhino/Gizmo compute environment. We expect this to take most of Sunday- d...
February Maintenance
On Sunday, 2 Feb 2024, SciComp will be performing maintenance on systems in the Rhino/Gizmo compute environment. We expect this to take most of Sunday- duri...
New Harmony Gpu Nodes
The gizmo cluster has been augmented with more capable GPU nodes which we are calling the “harmony” class node. These systems have four NVIDIA L40S GPUs and...
Hpc Temp Empty Directories
There is an issue with the Temp file system- empty directories are being removed nightly. This is a consequence of the way the Temp service was designed and...
August Gizmo Maintenance
On August 5th from 7:00PM to 9:00PM we are going to be working on the Gizmo cluster. We will be upgrading to new packages and a new version of Slurm and swi...
New Hpc Temp Storage
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Fasterq Dump Issue
Update 26 Feb 2024:
Java Temporary Directory
On Gizmo we configure a job local directory to be used by jobs- this path points to local storage and creates a managed directory for use by that job. Once ...
Vscode Lmod And Python
A common way to use VScode is to have VScode running on your local system and using the remote feature to connect and run code on rhino/gizmo nodes with a Py...
October Maintenance
On Sunday, 29 October from 12:00PM PDT until 5:00PM PDT Scientific Computing will be upgrading and replacing a number of the systems and components in our co...
Fasterq Dump Issue
fasterq-dump is a command-line utility used to extract FASTQ or FASTA data from SRA-accessions.
Gpu Limits
We have implemented limits on the total number of GPUs an account can use concurrently. At this time (April 2023) we’ve set this limit to 20 GPUs (though th...
Fasterq Dump Issue
Updated information is available here
Rhino/Gizmo Updates, 10 September 2022
On 10 September 2022 the Systems Engineering team will be updating the operating system on the file server silver which hosts fast, home directories, and man...
Gizmo Scratch Maintenance
The gizmo cluster will be unavailable during the Scratch file system rebuild. To prevent jobs from running during this time we have placed a maintenance re...
Gizmo Grabnode
Effective 8 August 2021
Control Group Resource Management
We are making some changes to gizmo that will ensure that jobs have access to the resources requested.
AWS Cloud Migration
We’re getting ready to migrate to our new AWS environment! This new environment will provide many benefits over the current account structure and enable Sci...
Gizmo Bionic Updates
Changes to Bionic Nodes
Gizmo Bionic Updates
Known Issues in the Bionic Environment
Notes for Changes to NoMachine in Bionic
With the new roll out of the Bionic nodes for the Gizmo computing environment we have made some changes to NoMachine and what this service is providing.
Gizmo Bionic Upgrade
The current operating system used on the Gizmo cluster and Rhino login nodes is Ubuntu 14.04. This version has been out of support for some time now and is ...
STAR-2.7.3a
STAR aligns RNA-seq reads to a reference genome using uncompressed suffix arrays.
Environment Modules after Upgrade
Hello to all Data Scientists and HPC Users!
High Performance Computing Systems Upgrade 2019 Announcement
UPDATE: This work has been delayed. Dates indicated below are no longer accurate and will be corrected in a later announcement
June SciComp Updates
Latest R: R/3.5.0-foss-2016b-fh1 Latest Python: Python/3.6.5-foss-2016b-fh3
Python 3.6.5 Software Release
I’m happy to announce the latest Python release for the Gizmo cluster. This is our biggest and best Python release to date. To access use the modules comman...