September maintenance
RCC maintenance will last from 9PM-12AM on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Cluster jobs will be blocked during maintenance. Login nodes will be rebooted. Open OnDemand will be rebooted. Access to storage may be disrupted.
Recent News#
What is scratch space?
Every RCC user has access to scratch space (i.e., /scratch) on the cluster, but many do not use it properly, or might not understand
its purpose. Here we'll talk about scratch space, why it exists, and how to use it properly.
Job scheduling and maintenance
Why is my job blocked?
This is the most common question before cluster maintenance. It has a simple, but hard to explain answer. Since we answer this question often, we wanted to share the answer, and provide an easy tool to help.
August maintenance
RCC maintenance will last from 9PM-12AM on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. Cluster jobs will be blocked during maintenance. Login nodes will be rebooted. Open OnDemand will be rebooted. Access to storage may be disrupted.
New GPU nodes available
Two new GPU nodes are now available. Each new node has 48 cores, 480GB of memory, 4 A40 GPUs, and a 3.84TB local scratch disk. Along with this addition, we’ve increased account and user limits for GPU utilization.
The new GPU nodes are part of the gpu partition. No additional configuration is needed. Please see the SLURM guide for details.