Announcements

Stay tuned for upcoming trainings and updates to documentation about the shared partition, and reach out to us if you need any help with getting shared jobs set up.

For more information on using the Kestrel DAV nodes, please see the VirtualGL and FastX page.

For module updates on Kestrel for OpenFOAM, Anaconda, NetCDF, please read on.

Welcome to Kestrel! We hope you have already been getting up-and-running on our newest system. This email is meant to provide an extra round-up of the resources that are available to you to help with transitioning to and working on Kestrel.

Eagle usage policies can be found at: https://www.nrel.gov/hpc/policies.html

Reminder: projects may be awarded AUs on more than one system. Please check the Lex web interface at https://hpcprojects.nrel.gov/ or your allocation's award letter for the system(s) and AUs awarded to your allocation. Please note: not all projects have an Eagle allocation. Unless you were specifically awarded AUs on Eagle, you will not be able to run jobs there. You do not have to be a lead or P.I. to view AUs. If you are a project user, you can also see AUs by logging into Lex (hpcprojects.nrel.gov).

With the introduction of Kestrel, the HPC Support team is now offering open HPC Office Hours sessions once a week! These are drop-in sessions to meet with User and Applications Support staff members to ask your questions. These sessions are being held on a rotating schedule of Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Please see the HPC Training Calendar for the current weekly schedule and a link to the Teams meeting to join.

In a short video, hear why Kestrel’s impressive speed really matters, according to Surendra Sunkari, NREL HPC engineer and Kestrel technical lead.

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

Advanced Computing Operations and Computational Sciences Applications worked together to provide updated HPC documentation in Github.  With Kestrel availability coming soon, the team worked together to remove more in-depth technical documentation from hpc.nrel.gov and moved it to Github Documentation.