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  • Virginia Women in HPC - Student Lightning Talks: November 12, 2024

     On November 12, 2024 from 1-2 p.m. EST, Virginia Women in High Performance Computing (VA-WHPC) will be hosting 8 students as they present research lightning talks to members of the HPC community from across Virginia. See here for details.
    Interested in giving a lightning talk? You’ll get 3 minutes and 1-2 slides to tell us all about your research. Don’t miss this chance to practice your presentation skills and share your research with a diverse audience! Sign up here by the end of today, October 24th! A helpful guide on how to give a successful lightning talk is available here
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  • Transition from Anaconda to Miniforge: October 15, 2024

     Due to the new licensing restrictions by Anaconda on research usage, the licensed Anaconda distribution was removed from the system on October 15, 2024. The current anaconda/2023.07-py3.11 module will redirect to the miniforge/24.3.0-py3.11 module, switching to conda-forge as the default package installation channel with fewer preinstalled packages. Existing environments will not be affected. However, using Anaconda default channels for research without a personal license will violate the Anaconda license. For instructional use, package installation from licensed channels is still allowed Maintenance: Oct 15, 2024 The UVA high-performance computing (HPC) system will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, beginning at 6 a.
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  • Afton Cluster Dedicated to Prof. John Hawley

     On September 16, 2024, RC dedicated the new Afton computing cluster to the memory of John F. Hawley (1958-2021), late Professor of Astronomy who was a leading researcher in computational astrophysics. He also served in the Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for nine years, first as Associate Dean for the Sciences and later as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. The ceremony featured some remarks by Josh Baller, Associate Vice President for Research Computing, and Scott Ruffner, Director of Infrastructure for Research Computing, along with a recorded message from Provost Ian Baucom.
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  • High-Security Standard Storage Maintenance: Oct 15, 2024

     The Ivy Virtual Machines (VMs) and high security zone HPC system will be down for storage maintenance on Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, beginning at 6 a.m. The system is expected to return to full service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct 16.. IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES During the maintenance all VMs will be down as well as the UVA Ivy Data Transfer Node (DTN) and Globus services. The High-Security HPC cluster will also be unavailable for all job scheduling and viewing.
    If you have any questions about the upcoming Ivy system maintenance, you may contact our user services team.
    Ivy Central Storage transition to HSZ Research Standard To transition from old storage hardware, we have retired the Ivy Central Storage and replaced it with the new High Security Zone Research Standard storage.
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  • HPC Maintenance: Oct 15, 2024

     The HPC cluster will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024 beginning at 6 am. 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 the cluster is returned to service.
    All systems are expected to return to service by Wednesday, Oct 16 at 6 am.
    IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES Expansion of /home To transition away from the Qumulo filesystem, we will migrate all /home directories to the GPFS filesystem and automatically increase each user’s /home directory limit to 200GB.
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  • Virginia Women in HPC - Building and Maintaining Supportive Communities

     When: Sep 03, 2023, 01:00 PM EST (US and Canada).
    What: Join us for a first of its kind Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) event, co-hosted by the Northeast, Purdue, and Virginia WHPC chapters to engage in discussions about current challenges and opportunities for fostering a more diverse and inclusive WHPC community. Our panelists will provide an overview of their chapters’ community activities and offer insights into navigating hurdles and fostering professional growth within HPC.
    The format for this event will be a brief presentation by the hosts followed by theme-focused breakout rooms where participants will be invited to share their experience and personal perspective.
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  • Research Computing Open House 2024

     UPDATE: The Research Computing Open House was held on a blustery, rainy day, but the spirits of the staff and attendees were not dampened. Turnout was above expectations despite the wet weather. Attendees enjoyed the buffet and their interactions with RC staff.
    The winners of the random-drawing prizes were
    Maria Luana Morais, SOM Matt Panzer, SEAS Artun Duransoy, SEAS Please join us at the Research Computing Open House on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, from 2-5 p.m. in the Commonwealth Room at Newcomb Hall. We are excited to host the UVA community to share updates on a new supercomputer and services that we are offering.
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  • HPC Maintenance: Aug 13, 2024

     The HPC cluster will be partially down for maintenance on Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024 beginning at 6 a.m. The following nodes will be unavailable during this period:
    all of parallel afton nodes in standard and interactive A40 GPU nodes in gpu The nodes are expected to return to service by Wednesday, Aug 14 at 6 a.m.
    There is no impact on other nodes or services. Jobs on other nodes will continue to run.
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  • RC Job Openings

     All positions are currently filled
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  • Reinstatement of file purging of personal /scratch files on Afton and Rivanna

     On Sep 1, 2024 RC system engineers will reinstate a file purging policy for personal /scratch folders on the Afton and Rivanna high-performance computing (HPC) systems. From Sep 1 forward, scratch files that have not been accessed for over 90 days will be permanently deleted on a daily rolling basis. This is not a new policy; it is a reactivation of an established policy that follows general HPC best practices.
    The /scratch filesystem is intended as a temporary work directory. It is not backed up and old files must be removed periodically to maintain a stable HPC environment.
    Key Points: Purging of personal scratch files will start on Sep 1, 2024.
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  • Production Release of the Afton HPC System: July 2, 2024

     Our new supercomputer, “Afton,” is now available for general use. This represents the first major expansion of RC’s computing resources since Rivanna’s last hardware refresh in 2019. Afton represents a substantial increase in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities available at UVA, more than doubling the available compute capacity. Each of the 300 compute nodes in the new system has 96 compute cores, an increase from a maximum of 48 cores per node in Rivanna. The increase in core count is augmented by a significant increase in memory per node. Each Afton node boasts a minimum of 750GB of memory, with some supporting up to 1.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: May 28, 2024

     Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 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. While drive mapping and project storage will be unavailable, other storage will remain accessible through Globus.
    All systems are expected to return to service by Thursday, May 30 at 6 a.m.
    IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES Hardware and partition changes afton: We are pleased to announce the addition of 300 nodes, 96 cores each, based on the AMD EPYC 9454 architecture.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance Schedule for 2024

     Rivanna will be taken down for maintenance in 2024 on the following days:
    Tuesday, February 6 Tuesday & Wednesday, May 28 & 29 Tuesday, July 2 Tuesday, October 15 Thursday, December 12 Please plan accordingly. Questions about the 2024 maintenance schedule should be directed to our user services team.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance Schedule for 2023

     Rivanna will be taken down for maintenance in 2023 on the following days:
    Tuesday, March 7 Tuesday, May 30 Tuesday, October 3 Monday, December 18 Please plan accordingly. Questions about the 2023 maintenance schedule should be directed to our user services team.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Scratch Recovery with Globus

     Globus is a simple, reliable, and fast way to access and move your research data between systems. Researchers can transfer data from their old scratch directories to new scratch via a single web interface - no software download or installation is necessary.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • KNL Nodes and Partition to be Removed from Rivanna on June 30, 2022

     Rivanna has included Intel KNL (Knight’s Landing) nodes for several
    years. This was a unique architecture, not well suited for general
    use, and the manufacturer has stopped producing or supporting this type
    of hardware. As a result, the KNL nodes will be removed from Rivanna
    on June 30, 2022.
    Rivanna System Details
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  • 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.
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  • Virginia Women in HPC - Panel Discussion, April 27

     Please join us for a lively panel discussion of the high-performance computing infrastructure and support resources available to researchers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Panelists from Virginia’s top research universities will provide an overview of the user base at their home institutions and discuss strategies for helping researchers make better use of existing HPC resources. Attendees are encouraged to share their own experiences and engage with panelists during this interactive Q&A session.
    *Topic: High-performance Computing Resources in the Commonwealth of Virginia
    When: April 27, 2022 01:00 PM, Eastern Time (US and Canada)
    REGISTER NOW!   – Featured panelists: Matthew Brown (VT)
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  • Virginia Women in HPC - Research Highlights Event, Jan. 25

     We are proud to announce the founding of Virginia’s first Women in High-Performance Computing (VA-WHPC) program. Join us for our first event of 2022: Female research leaders of the Commonwealth sharing and discussing how HPC has facilitated their scientific research and professional careers.
    Topic: How does HPC help with your scientific research – Faculty perspectives, Part II
    When: Jan 25, 2022 01:00 PM, Eastern Time (US and Canada)
    REGISTER NOW!   – Our speakers: Anne Brown (VT) is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Science Informatics Consultant and Health Analytics Coordinator at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include utilizing computational modeling to answer biological questions and aid in drug discovery and the application of computational molecular modeling to elucidate the relationship between structure, function, and dynamics of biomolecules.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: December 14, 2021

     Rivanna and the Globus data transfer nodes (DTNs) will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 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 be unable to transfer data using Globus during the maintenance period. Rivanna and the Globus DTNs are expected to return to service by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, December 15.
    IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES New GPU We are pleased to announce the addition of DGX A100 GPU to the gpu partition.
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  • Maintenance Day: October 12, 2021

     The Globus data transfer nodes (DTNs) and Rivanna’s parallel nodes will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Users will be unable to transfer data using Globus or run parallel jobs on Rivanna during this period.
    All other systems and services—including storage—are expected to continue operating normally.
    IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES The following Rivanna software changes will be implemented during the maintenance period:
    IDL/8.4- replaced by 8.8 (8.7.2 still available) ANSYS default version changing from 2021r1 to 2021r2
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  • Breaking News: AlphaFold is now available on Rivanna!

    We are pleased to announce that AlphaFold is now available on Rivanna! Here are some of our user’s first few protein structure prediction calculations on Rivanna.

    Simple ZFc protein: Similar results for AlphaFold (brown) and I-TASSER (blue). (This figure was created with the RCSB Pairwise Structure Alignment tool.)

    146PduD-linker-ZFc protein: AlphaFold’s (left) superior ability to predict secondary structure, a β-sheet in its green-yellow region, whereas I-TASSER (right) is not sufficiently refined to feature any β-strands. (This figure was created with NGL Viewer.)
    (Credits: David Bass and Prof. Keith Kozminski, Department of Biology)
    FAQ What is AlphaFold?
    AlphaFold is an AI for protein structure prediction developed by Google DeepMind.

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  • Remaining maintenance days in 2021

     Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, October 12 and Tuesday, December 14. Please plan accordingly. We do not anticipate any additional maintenance days in 2021.
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  • ITS `home1` directories unavailable on Rivanna

     ITS has completed phase 1 of its network reconfiguration and ITS NAS storage volumes have been remounted on Rivanna. RC managed Research Standard and Research Project storage are also fully available. ITS home1 directories, including /nv/t* mounts, remain unavailable on Rivanna. Users will still be able to mount ITS home1 storage to their local workstations and transfer their data via Globus and the UVA Main DTN. We regret the inconvenience.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: June 15, 2021

     Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, 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 Wednesday, June 16.
    IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES Globus Some Globus users may need to rebuild their shared connections after the maintenance period has ended. Users who require assistance with this task are invited to join us for office hours between 10 a.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: Phase 2 Completed

     Phase 2 of the maintenance period is complete. A majority of Rivanna’s nodes, including its parallel nodes, can now be accessed by users.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: Phase 1 Completed

     Phase 1 of the maintenance period is now complete. Rivanna’s standard, GPU, largemem, and front-end nodes have been returned to service. Pending jobs that were submitted before the maintenance began need to be resubmitted.
    Rivanna’s parallel nodes will be released in phase 2 which we anticipate being finished by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 22.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance Update: 12/18/20, 02:30 pm EST

     In order to expedite users' access to the system, Rivanna will be returned to service in 2 separate phases:
    During phase 1, which is expected to be completed in fewer than 72 hours from now, the standard, GPU, largemem, and front-end nodes will be reactivated. Rivanna’s parallel nodes will be released in phase 2 which should be finished within the 72-hour timeframe.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance Extended

     The maintenance period has been extended for another 72 hours minimum. We apologize for the inconvenience. Rivanna was expected to return to service on December 17, but ongoing electrical work in the data center and other obstacles have delayed our engineering team’s progress.
    We will send out an e-mail announcement as soon as the maintenance period ends. Updates will also be posted on our website.
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: December 16-17, 2020

    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.

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  • Rivanna Maintenance: Sept 22, 2020

     Rivanna will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, September 22, beginning at 8:30 a.m. It is expected to return to service later in the day. RC engineers will be installing new hardware that is needed to stabilize the /scratch filesystem.
    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.
    If you have any questions or concerns about the maintenance period, please contact our user support team at hpc-support@virginia.edu.
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  • Automated Image Labeling and Iterative Learning - Live Seminar: September 15, 2020

     MathWorks engineers will offer a free live webinar on September 15th from 2:00 to 3:00 Eastern time.
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  • Deep Learning for Neuroscience - Live Seminar: September 22, 2020

     MathWorks engineers will offer a free live webinar on September 22nd from 2:00 to 3:30 Eastern time.
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  • R Updates: June 17, 2020

     During the June maintenance, we made changes to R which will affect how your R programs run on Rivanna. A brief description of the changes is as follows:
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  • Rivanna Maintenance: June 17, 2020

    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.

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  • RC Acquires New Accounting Management Software for Rivanna

     Research Computing will be activating a new accounting management package for Rivanna on June 17, 2020. The software was purchased from Adaptive Computing, which specializes in advanced management applications for high-performance systems. Rivanna users can expect to see more accurate reporting on their Service Unit (SU) balances and burn rates. Information on usage by individual members of an allocation group will also be available.
    Commands such as allocations will remain but will reflect the new accounting. Users should be aware that the new accounting system implements “liens” on running jobs, and that the SUs requested for each job will be held in a reserved pool until the job completes.
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  • Rivanna Software Updates: March 11, 2020

     The Rivanna maintenance has been completed on March 11 and the system is back in service. The following software modules have been 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 are now available under gcc/7.1.0. The only exception is cushaw3/3.0.3. Please contact us if you need to use it. pgi/19.7 & toolchains -> 19.10 All modules that depend on pgi/19.7 are now available under pgi/19.10. anaconda/5.2.0-py2.7 -> 2019.10-py2.7 All modules that depend on anaconda/5.2.0-py2.7 are now available under anaconda/2019.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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 log in to JIRA after the migration is completed, you will need to change your password using your UVA e-mail address.
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  • `/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.
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  • Important Notes from the 17 September Rivanna Maintenance

     Learn about recent changes implemented during the Sept. 17, 2019 maintenance.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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