News Archive
05/10/2022 - GROMACS & Much More!
GROMACS is now available to all in the cluster environment, with documentation and example scripts having been written to help researchers to leverage it for their work.
Additionally entries in the F.A.Q. have been updated for HTCondor 9.0, new updates to the Getting Started Guide’s example jobs to mention requesting resources to help ensure that resources are available for each job when asked for. The Getting Started Guide now also includes a link to a Linux command line tutorial to help those new to using the command line and provide more examples of navigating using the command line.
Entries added to the F.A.Q. about leveraging the SSDs in some of the GPU nodes to help improve throughput.
Finally, HTCondor has also been recently updated to the latest stable release, 9.0.12, which should resolve the scheduler crashes that were seen recently. The occurred when the scheduler tried to re-connect to already running parallel universe jobs.
10/11/2021 - Singularity
Singularity was recently deployed to all cluster nodes, and new documentation was written to help summarize many of the ways to use it and provide more HTCondor submission examples. If you’ve wanted to use Docker for your research on the cluster, this may be the solution you were looking for.
09/13/2021 - HTCondor 9.0
HTCondor 9.0 has been deployed to all cluster systems and CSCI lab systems.
Updated documentation showcasing some of the new feature will be published soon.
06/15/2021 - VPN Requirement
The cluster head nodes are moving behind the VPN as of 06/17/2021. The getting started page and F.A.Q. have both been updated with new information about connecting to the VPN.