Announcements

Many of you have requested to be added or removed from the Team. Please follow the instructions below:

Check in often for updates from the team, videos, photos, and more in the Countdown to Kestrel blog!

This was a very exciting day for Kestrel! U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the NREL campus to help showcase and celebrate the laboratory's new campus expansion projects. Among many exciting activities of the day, the secretary joined NREL staff and representatives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to sign the supercomputer!

NREL HPC Operations and Application Support teams will host an Intro to HPC workshop series every Wednesday from 12-1 p.m. starting June 7th.  Webinar information to follow.

Topics/Schedule (links directly to the invite on SharePoint):

NREL HPC Systems and Linux Fundamentals on June 7th 12-1
Resource Management: Slurm on June 14th 12-1
Software Environments on June 21st 12-1
Jupyterhub on June 28th 12-1

NREL HPC User Accounts are recommended for each of the presentations to allow participation: Request an Account.

As always, this presentation will be recorded and made immediately available to members of the public Teams Channel, Computational Sciences Tutorials here: Recordings.

NREL runs an annual open call on behalf of EERE for research and development projects to request use of a defined quantity, or allocation, of the compute resources at NREL. This notification serves as the announcement of this call for allocation requests. The allocation period of performance runs from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

We are hosting two webinars to help acquaint you with the allocation process.

Register for either of the upcoming webinars:

1st HPC allocation webinar: May 18, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. MDT
2nd HPC allocation webinar: May 24, 11 a.m. – noon MDT

NOTE: You do not need to attend both HPC webinars—choose that one that works best for you.

The newest high-performance computing system, Kestrel, is about to take flight at NREL! Follow the journey of EERE’s latest supercomputing technology in the new Kestrel blog! The first components of the Kestrel supercomputer will arrive at NREL on March 20.

Check in often for updates from the team, videos, photos, and more in the Countdown to Kestrel blog!

Kestrel will be shipping soon and is on track for a Q4 availability!

HPC Operations strongly recommends against setting world writeable (chmod o+rwx or 777) permissions on either your /home or /scratch directories

HPC office hours are being held remotely via Teams on a bi-weekly basis alternating between Tuesday and Thursday at 11am. Please see the NREL HPC Training page: NREL HPC Training page.