Rivanna Maintenance: March 11, 2020

Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Wednesday, March 11, 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.
Rivanna is expected to return to service later in the day.
The following software modules will be removed from Rivanna during the maintenance period (please use the suggested newer versions):
gcc/5.4.0 & toolchains -> 7.1.0 All modules that depend on gcc/5.4.0 will be available under gcc/7.1.0. The only exception is cushaw3/3. Read more →

Rivanna Maintenance: December 18, 2020

Rivanna will be taken down for routine maintenance on Wednesday, December 18, 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.
Rivanna is expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Thursday, December 19. Read more →

JIRA Downtime: December 13, 2020

The JIRA ticketing system will be taken offline on Friday, December 13 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. while our system engineers continue the process of migrating the ticketing system from a local environment to the cloud. Please avoid submitting requests during this period if possible. Although moving to a cloud-based ticketing system will improve the speed and efficiency of our customer service in the long run, in the short-term it may cause disruptions for some users.
If you are unable to login to JIRA after the migration is completed, you will need to change your password using your UVA e-mail address. Read more →

/scratch Policy Enforcement

Beginning 10/14/2019 RC system engineers will begin actively clearing /scratch files that have not been accessed for 90 days. /scratch is intended as a temporary work directory (90 days maximum).
It is not backed up and needs to be purged periodically in order to maintain a stable HPC environment. We encourage users to back up their important data.
RC offers several low-cost storage options to researchers.
For more information about research computing storage options:
Visit our Storage Overview page. Learn more about specific storage features of Rivanna HPC. Read more →

Fall 2019 Workshop Series

RC staff are teaching a series of free hands-on workshops this fall that are open to all UVA researchers. Space is limited, so register today! Topics include:
Image Processing with Fiji/ImageJ (Sept 11) MATLAB Fundamentals (Sept 12) Programming in MATLAB (Sept 19) Optimizing R Code (Sept 24) Parallel Computing in MATLAB (Sept 26) Introduction to Parallel R (Oct 1) Machine Learning with MATLAB (Oct 3) Automation of Image Processing with Fiji/ImageJ (Oct 9) Deep Learning with MATLAB (Oct 17) Moving R Programs to Rivanna (Oct 17) Browse Workshops Read more →

Featured Projects & Collaborations

UVA Research Computing strives to empower researchers to achieve more through the use of cutting-edge computational resources.
This has led to fruitful collaborations with researchers and staff across grounds, including these groups and departments:
Astronomy Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Biomedical Engineering Center for Applied Biomechanics Center for Advanced Medical Analytics Center for Behavioral Health and Technology Center for Diabetes Technology Center for Public Health Genomics Economics Emergency Medicine Environmental Sciences Infectious Diseases Public Health Sciences Materials Science & Engineering Pediatrics–Neonatology Radiology and Medical Imaging Surgery UVA Sinklab To browse a gallery of recent projects, visit our Projects page below. Read more →

Summer 2019 Education Series

RC staff are teaching a series of free hands-on workshops this summer that are open to all UVA researchers. Space is limited, so register today! Topics include:
Programming in Python (June 3-June 5) R (June 3-June 4) MATLAB (June 5-June 7 and June 13) Compiled Languages, C++ and Fortran (June 6-June 7) Scientific Image Processing with Fiji/ImageJ (June 10) Introduction to High-Performance Computing (June 10) Software Design and Testing (June 11) HPC Data Analytics (June 11) Parallel Programming Using MPI (June 12-June 13) Bioinformatics (June 12) Scientific Visualization (June 14) OpenMP and Accelerators (June 14) Register through the new CADRE Academy portal. Read more →

LOLAweb

From his lab in the Center for Public Health Genomics at UVa, Nathan Sheffield seeks to develop a deeper understanding of functional genomics. Dr. Sheffield and his collaborators study epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, which can involve analyzing enrichment of genomic region set data. By identifying patterns of enriched genomic regions, one can differentiate between normal and diseased gene regulation. Dr. Sheffield builds on this research focus as well as a history of open-source software development with the publication of LOLAweb: A containerized web server for interactive genomic locus overlap enrichment analysis as part of a special web server issue of Nucleic Acids Research. Read more →

What is Research Computing?

UVA Research Computing (RC) is a new program that aims to support computational biomedical research by providing advanced cyberinfrastructure and expertise in data analysis at scale. Our mission is to foster a culture of computational thinking and promote interdisciplinary collaboration in various data-driven research domains. We offer services related to high performance computing, cloud architecture, scientific programming and big data solutions. We also aim to promote computationally intensive research at UVA through collaborative efforts such as UVA’s own CADRE (Computation And Data Resource Exchange) and XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment).
One of our driving philosophies is that researchers already have medical and scientific expertise, and should not have to become computing experts on top of that. Read more →