Pitzer

System Downtime March 31, 2021

A downtime for all OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The downtime will affect the Pitzer and Owens Clusters, web portals, state-wide licenses, and HPC file servers. Login services will not be available during this time, including MyOSC. In preparation for the downtime, the batch scheduler will begin holding jobs that cannot be completed before 7 a.m., March 31, 2021. Jobs that are not started on clusters will be held until after the downtime and then started once the system is returned to production status.

Gromacs 2020.5 is available

Date: 
Friday, January 22, 2021 - 4:00pm
System(s): 
Owens
Pitzer

Gromacs 2020.5 has been installed on Owens and Pitzer.  Usage is via the module gromacs/2020.5.  For help loading an installation, use the command:  "module spider gromacs/2020.5".  For information on available executables and installation details use the command:  "module help gromacs/2020.5".

Rolling reboot of Pitzer cluster, starting from 9AM Feb 05, 2021

We will have rolling reboots of Pitzer cluster including login and compute nodes, starting from Feb 03, 2021. The rolling reboot is to update BIOS for urgent security updates as well as memory bug fixes. The rolling reboots won't affect any running jobs, but users may experience longer queue wait time than usual on the cluster. User will also expect a ~10 minute outage of login nodes at about 9AM Feb 05, 2021. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please contact oschelp@osc.edu if you have any questions.

Amber 20 is updated

Date: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 8:15pm
System(s): 
Owens
Pitzer

Amber version 20 has been updated and installed with Intel and GNU compilers and MVAPICH2 on Owens and Pitzer.  These include Amber and AmberTools.  Usage is via the module amber/20.  For installation details, such as, available packages and example batch scripts, use command:  "module help amber/20".  For help loading an installation, use command:  "module spider amber/20".

LAMMPS 29Oct20 is available

Date: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 8:15pm
System(s): 
Owens
Pitzer

LAMMPS stable version 29Oct20 has been installed with MVAPICH2, OpenMPI, and IntelMPI on Owens and Pitzer.  These are GPU enabled installations.  Usage is via the module lammps/29Oct20.  For installation details, such as, available packages and example batch scripts, use command:  "module help lammps/29Oct20".  For help loading an installation, use command:  "module spider lammps/29Oct20".

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