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Brian O'Shea Announced as New ICER Director
Dr. Brian O'Shea has agreed to become the next director of ICER. Dr. Kenneth Merz, the present ICER director, will be stepping down this summer. We thank Dr. Merz for his service to ICER. Brian will be consulting with the various units and with individual faculty to get a better understanding of...New Home Directory and Research Server Migration
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, we will be migrating all users and research spaces on ufs-13-a and ufs-13-b to the new home directory system. Users with home directories on ufs-13-a and ufs-13-b will not be able to run jobs or log into the HPCC on this day, and research spaces on ufs-13-a and ufs-13-b...
iCER Research Highlights: Zhuoqin Yu
The Use of Machine Learning to Solve Problems in Computational Chemistry Zhuoqin Yu is a PhD student pursuing research in Computational Chemistry at Michigan State University. She has been working under Dr. Kenneth M. Merz Jr, applying machine learning to problems in computational chemistry and...$15, 000/yr fellowships in computational and data science
Several years ago, ACM SIGHPC and Intel launched an international program of graduate fellowships in computational and data science. The goal of this graduate fellowship is to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women as...Check Status Changes using HPCC Announcements
HPCC has undergone many changes since September 2018. We migrated our nodes from CentOS6 to CentOS7 and transitioned to a new job scheduler: SLURM. We currently have two scratch systems (gs18 and ls15) and are going to migrate users' home and research directories to IBM GPFS (General Parallel File...iCER Welcomes New Business Staff
Starr is excited to join the iCER business team and looks forward to working with the HPC users. Starr is a MSU graduate and has worked on campus for over 21 years in various capacities. Starr enjoys working in a team environment and sharing her knowledge and experiences with others. Education...Upcoming home directory and research space changes
Dear HPCC users, We are beginning the process of migrating users and researchers to the new home directory system. In the next few weeks, we will be notifying users to schedule migrations of their home and research spaces. There are a few differences with the new system to be aware of: As part of...iCER student highlights: Zhouyou Fan
The study of gluon distributions through lattice QCD Zhouyou Fan is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State, concentrating on theoretical high-energy physics. He works under Professor Huey-Wen Lin, whose research specifically involves quantum chromodynamics...
iCER Welcomes New HPC Administrator
Kelly Climer is the newest HPC Administrator at iCER. He comes to the HPC after 12 years as System Administrator with the Computer Science Department here at Michigan State University. As a member of the iCER team, Kelly will be assisting with general system administration work and Help Desk...Q&A on using your scratch space
While we are upgrading HPCC's file systems, some issues related to file downloading and transfer are clarified below. Q1 - I can't use git commands in my home directory. Please use your scratch space instead. Each user should have two scratch folders after login to a dev-node: /mnt/ls15/scratch/...
iCER student highlights: Matthew Moreno
The study of transitions and encodings in digital evolution Matthew Andres Moreno is studying Computer Science and Engineering as a graduate student at Michigan State University. He works under the guidance of Charles Ofria and his research takes place in the Digital Evolution Lab. His research...