Announcements

We are extending the deadline from Friday, June 14th to Friday, June 21st to allow more time to respond. For more information about the call please see review the Resource Allocation Request page of our website.

Be on the lookout! The FY24 Annual Report Request will be coming your way, if you have active computing usage, in early July. Please look for an email from HPC (HPC-Reporting@nrel.gov) and/or Stratus Cloud (StratusCloudReporting@nrel.gov). Annual reports are due August 30th, if you want to place an advance notice on your calendars.

The NREL HPC team has two important pieces of news to share with the our HPC user community.

The ESIF HPC Data center has experienced a significant number of planned and unplanned outages this year. Many of the planned outages were driven by electrical and mechancial work required to upgrade the ESIF data center from 5MW to 7.5MW of electrical and cooling capacity.

The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has released the call for FY 25 requests for computing on Kestrel, NREL's 3rd generation supercomputer. Research and development projects that are funded by EERE Offices as well as NREL projects funded by a non-EERE source are eligible to apply for computing resources for the FY 25 allocation period of performance, which runs Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2025. Learn more about resource allocation requests.

There have been changes to the methods for external (non-NREL) users to connect to Eagle recently.

A recent update to Microsoft Virtual Studio Code (VS Code 1.86) is incompatible with Eagle's operating system.

The upgrades for Kestrel continue with considerable progress at the mid-point of the upgrade process.

The Kestrel system will soon undergo a scheduled outage for maintenance and integration of the Phase II GPUs. A tentative outage date has been set for Monday, January 29th at 7:00 AM.

We are working with EERE on a new effort to engage more students in computing and to amplify how computing is used for EERE work. These goals begin with a Kestrel-focused campaign in January, where undergraduate and graduate students from any U.S. college or university can apply for time on Kestrel for their EERE mission-related research project. Students have until Feb. 12, 2024, to apply, and EERE decisions on allocations will be made by early March. Student time on Kestrel will be granted for the remainder of FY 2024.