UVA Research Computing Exhibition: April 23, 2024

About This Event: The Research Computing Exhibition will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom. The event will include:
A panel discussion made up of academic scientific computing experts and research computing faculty and staff. Judged poster session with prizes: First Place: $3,000 travel voucher Second Place: $2,000 travel voucher Third Place: $1,000 travel voucher Light refreshments
If you would like to participate in the poster session, please fill out the Intent to Participate Form by Friday, March 15. While all are welcome to present a poster during the exhibition, only UVA affiliated non-faculty submissions will be eligible for the award prizes. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: February 6, 2024

Rivanna, Research Project storage, and Research Standard storage will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, February 6 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs to Rivanna until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service. All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, February 7.
UVA’s Facilities Management (FM) group will be updating the data center power grid during the maintenance period. This work is expected to be completed by 6 a.m. on 2/7. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance Schedule for 2024

Rivanna will be taken down for maintenance in 2024 on the following days:
Tuesday, February 6 Tuesday, May 28 Tuesday, October 8 or 15 (reading days TBD) Thursday, December 12 Please plan accordingly. Questions about the 2024 maintenance schedule should be directed to our user services team. Read more →

RC’s Data Analytics Center (DAC): Now Serving UVA’s Research Community

The Data Analytics Center is UVA’s new hub for the management and analysis of your large research data. Need help with your computational research? DAC staff specialize in key domain areas such as image processing, text analysis, bioinformatics, computational chemistry and physics, neural networks, and more. And because the DAC team is located within Research Computing, they can assist in getting your workflows running on the University’s high-performance cluster or secure data system. They can answer your basic computational questions or, through funded engagements, be embedded in your projects.
Big data doesn’t have to be a big deal. Learn how DAC can assist with your computational research – schedule an initial consultation with one of their data analysts by submitting a consultation request. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: December 18, 2023

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Monday, December 18, 2023 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service.
All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Tuesday, December 19.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES The operating system will be upgraded to Rocky 8.7 with system glibc 2.28 and GCC 8.5.0. Due to fundamental changes in system libraries, the entire software stack is rebuilt. Users should rebuild all self-compiled codes and R packages. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: October 3, 2023

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service. All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, October 4.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES New largemem nodes RC engineers will be adding 36 nodes, each with 40 cores and 750 GB total memory, to the largemem partition on Rivanna. Jobs that need more memory than 9 GB per core should be submitted to the largemem partition rather than the standard partition. Read more →

Virginia Women in HPC Events in September & October

VA-WHPC September Event - Leadership Journeys Time: Sep 19, 2023, 01:00 PM EST (US and Canada).
Join us for our next community event featuring Dr. Neena Imam as she shares her personal view of challenges and successes experienced throughout her inspiring leadership journey in research, HPC and AI computing. Come learn about career strategies, ask questions, and contribute to our discussion of how the playing field may be leveled to offer equitable IT & HPC leadership opportunities for women and minorities.
Dr. Imam earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and has been engaged in research and computing in a variety of roles. Read more →

New Scratch System on Rivanna: July 18, 2023

During the July 18th maintenance, RC engineers installed a new /scratch file storage system on Rivanna. We have created sample scripts and instructions to help you transfer your files from the previous file system to the new one.(Expand the link below for details.) The previous scratch filesystem, now called /oldscratch, will be permanently retired on October 17, 2023 and all the data it contains will be deleted.
Users should clean up their /oldscratch directory in preparation, to minimize the load. A sample script is posted below.
Modified queue limits have been implemented to provide maximum read/write performance of the new /scratch filesystem. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: July 18, 2023

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on July 18, 2023 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service.
All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, July 19.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES New scratch RC engineers will be installing a new /scratch storage filesystem that can be accessed at /scratch/$USER after the end of maintenance.
Modified queue limits will be implemented to provide maximum read/write performance of the new /scratch filesystem. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: May 30, 2023

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on May 30, 2023 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service.
All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, May 31.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES Five RTX3090 nodes (4 GPU devices each) have been added to the gpu partition - use –gres=gpu:rtx3090 in Slurm script.
Modules The toolchains gompic gcccuda goolfc will be removed from Rivanna during the maintenance period, since we now have CUDA-aware toolchains based on gcc/11. Read more →

Virginia Women in HPC - Student Lightning Talks

What: Join us in welcoming 11 undergraduate and graduate students from across Virginia to talk about their research. The talks will be lightning style format allowing 3 minutes for students to present and 1-2 questions and 1-2 questions from the audience. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to hear about a variety of research topics within HPC!
Event Time: April 4, 2023, 01:00 PM EST (US and Canada).
Register now   Featured Speakers: Lakshmi Miller - Graduate Student
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech
“CFD Informed Maneuvering of AUVs”
Rashmi Chawla - Graduate Student
Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech Read more →

MATLAB Seminar March 16 3-4PM: Medical Image Analysis and AI Workflows

Medical images come from multiple sources such as MRI, CT, X-ray, ultrasound, and PET. Analysis of these images requires a comprehensive environment for data access, visualization, processing, and algorithm development. The main challenge is to extract clinically meaningful information based on advanced techniques such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). To achieve this, one needs to clean, segment, register, and label a large collection of images. For the AI analysis, there are many more challenges such as iteratively adjusting AI models or learning parameters. MATLAB provides tools such as Medical Imaging Toolbox and Deep Learning Toolbox and algorithms for end-to-end medical image analysis and AI workflow. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: December 19, 2022

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on December 19, 2022 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service. Users will not be able to access the Globus data transfer node during the maintenance period.
All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Tuesday, December 20. Globus users may need to rebuild their shared collections.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES Two new toolchains are now available: goolf/11.2.0_4.1.4 and intel/2022. Read more →

Virginia Women in HPC - Women in HPC & IT Leadership Roles

Topic: Women in HPC & IT Leadership Roles.
When: October 12, 2022 01:00 PM, Eastern Time (US and Canada).
Join us for our Fall community meeting to hear from female leaders in the HPC & IT field sharing challenges and successes experienced throughout their careers. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to learn about career strategies, share your experience, and contribute to our discussion of how the playing field may be leveled to offer equitable HPC & IT leadership opportunities for women and minorities. Attendees are invited to share their own experiences and engage with panelists during this interactive Q&A session. Read more →

ACCORD Community Meeting - August 5, 2022

When: Aug 5, 2022 11:00AM-3:00PM, Eastern Time (US and Canada)
UVA is proud to sponsor a community meeting to discuss ACCORD, how far we have come and where we are headed. The event is all virtual, and you may attend any or all of the topics.
Access the Event: Register for the Event Zoom Link You are welcome to invite colleagues to attend the Community Meeting, especially researchers who are new to ACCORD.
Agenda 11:00 – 11:10 Welcome to ACCORD 11:10 – 12:00 Technical Overview of ACCORD 12:00 – 12:15 Break 12:15 – 12:45 Demo of ACCORD 12:45 – 1:30 Brown bag lunch with users sharing their experience 1:30 – 1:50 Breakout Room Topic Discussions Session 1 1:50 – 1:55 Switch Breakout Rooms 1:55 – 2:15 Breakout Room Topic Discussions Session 2 2:15 – 2:30 Break 2:30 – 3:00 Peek into the Future of ACCORD The same topics will be covered in the two breakout sessions so that you may attend two of the topics. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: May 17, 2022

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on May 17, 2022 beginning at 6 a.m. You may continue to submit jobs until the maintenance period begins, but if the system determines your job will not have time to finish, it will not start until Rivanna is returned to service. Users will not be able to access the Globus data transfer node (UVA Main-DTN) or Research Project storage during the maintenance period. All systems are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, May 18.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES The operating system will be upgraded from CentOS 7.8 to 7. Read more →