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Upcoming Updates for Windows File Sharing
During our next outage on August 8th, we will be updating the software that allows users to mount their home directory and research spaces on their computers on campus to improve security. After the update, please review our wiki "Mapping HPC drives to a campus computer (with SMB) " for updated...
iCER Student Highlights: Carl Fields
Study of the Evolution of Stars and Stellar Explosions Carl Fields is currently a Ph.D. student studying Astronomy and Astrophysics at Michigan State University. He works with Sean Couch, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is supported by the Ford Foundation through a...New file system may help jobs requiring heavy file operation
iCER is hard at work providing cyber-infrastructure that helps your work run faster. The team recently installed a file system (ffs17) better suited for applications that read and write many small files. The Lustre file system is excellent for fast access to large files but is not suited for high I...
Welcome New iCER Research Consultant
Nanye Long is the newest iCER Research Consultant. Before joining iCER, she was a statistical geneticist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy where she held a leading role in large-scale genetic data analysis for DILIN (Drug Induced Liver Injury Network)...
2017 iCER Student Highlights
Every researcher can tell a story about their research journey and all the stories are unique. There is amazing computational research being done by students at Michigan State University and we would love to showcase these research stories! If you are graduate students using HPCC system or iCER...Bayesian Software updated
We have several researchers that use the HPC for long-running Bayesian calculations, and HPC is well suited for that. Many of them use the JAGS software application, and the R package to interact with it. We've had a few issues with this software: 1. Some users would see "MKL" errors depending on...Scratch file system is for temporary files only
This is a friendly reminder that our scratch file system ( /mnt/scratch/<username> is for temporary files only. No backups are made of files on scratch. In order to keep the file system clean, every day the system looks for and deletes any files that are 45 days old (days since the file was...
Experiencing HPC for Undergraduate Students
The Experiencing HPC for Undergraduate Students program fully funds about 25 students (US-based and from the rest of the world) to attend the SC17 conference. (This year the conference is in Denver, CO from Nov. 12 to Nov. 17. More details about the conference are available at http://sc17....
Summer Advanced Computational Research Experience for Students (ACRES) Begins
FRIDAY, May 26th – Eleven undergraduates from around the US arrived at Michigan State University’s campus this week to participate in the 10-week Advanced Computational Research Experiences (ACRES) program. One of only two CISE Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) programs in the state of...4 Updates for System Maintenance in May
On May 16, 2017, system maintenance performed on the High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) at Michigan State University addressed the following issues related to security, stability and performance: TORQUE, the HPCC resource manager, was updated to version 6.1.1.1. This is the latest version...
New System Admin join the HPCC Team
Cameron Crisovan is the newest Information Technologist on the HPCC team. Before joining iCER, he was a Linux System Administrator at Liquid Web for 5 years, working mostly on the System Restore team. Cameron will be assisting with general system administration work and Help Desk support for the...