Starting March 19, NVIDIA will provide a free 90-day license to Parabricks to any researcher in the worldwide effort to fight the novel coronavirus. Based on the well-known Genome Analysis Toolkit, Parabricks uses GPUs to accelerate by as much as 50x the analysis… Read More
Orange Firmware Upgrade – Completed
Maintenance was completed in ~2 hours. All systems are normal again. On Tuesday, March 3rd Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the Orange filesystem in order to upgrade the storage I/O modules. This maintenance is expected to take approximately… Read More
ResVault Downtime
A maintenance downtime starting on Tuesday, January 14th through January 18th is needed for ResVault. In preparation for the maintenance: Remember that the most secure location for data is in the MyVault part of the system. In preparation for the… Read More
Reduced Support Levels for Winter Break
Research Computing will operate with reduced support levels during the UF Winter Break from Saturday, December 14, 2019 through Sunday, January 5, 2020. This is to allow the staff to take well-deserved time off for the holidays after working hard… Read More
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Established in 1991, the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems. The program fosters a… Read More
East Campus power outage affecting job scheduling
A power outage on Waldo road just outside of East Campus has affected cooling of the cluster server room. A vehicle accident on Waldo road caused a power outage for most of East Campus this morning (Friday, October 18th), and… Read More
GUI module default changing to gui/2
On Thursday, October 17th we changed the default environment module for GUI_Programs from gui/1 to gui/2. The RC GUI version 2.0 setup does not require client software installation. Instead, it creates a web-based GUI application session, so a web browser… Read More
New GPUs Available – CUDA Environment Change
UF Research Computing has added 104 GPUs to the cluster. These GPUs will be available to those who have made GPU investments. The new GPU hosts will be configured with device drivers supporting the CUDA 10 Toolkit and CUDA 10… Read More
Research Computing Training
Research Computing kicks off the Spring 2019 semester with renewed training sessions for faculty and students who want to learn how to start using the high-end resources that we provide, or simply more about how they can fully utilize the… Read More
Post Hurricane Dorian
Research Computing is now back in full operation. We are still keeping an eye on Hurricane Dorian, but weather forecasts now have it staying off the coast and not affecting main campus. UF units outside of Alachua County should follow… Read More