On-going work July - ? in our Boston data center Due to scheduling of resources around pandemic guidelines and rules, as well as scheduling with the data center and vendors, an end date is not yet known. As part of cost-savings plans, FASRC and Harvard Medical School will be combining space in our Boston data center. This allows FASRC, HMS,…
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Holidays and Tech: Your first computer
A bit of fun before the holiday break. One thing that people in our profession can count on is 'your first computer'. There is one for each of us, and generally they hold a special place in our hearts and very often they're tied to holidays or birthdays. We did an impromptu survey of FASRC (as well as with some…
Cannon makes super-computing Top 500 List
The November 2019 Top 500 List has just added Cannon, and we're very pleased to say we've ranked #144 overall and # 7 on the US academic list. We and the Harvard FAS are very proud to have Cannon in such a prominent position in the list. It demonstrates Harvard's commitment to pushing the envelope to provide its researchers with…
On Artificial Intelligence
by Paul Edmon, November 20, 2019 Currently in the realm of computer science there is no hotter topic than Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). However as this slide deck from Professor Arvind Narayanan at Princeton notes there is also a lot of snake oil going around too. Thus an understanding of AI is important in our current day…
Harvard/Yale meetup at MGHPCC
by Maggie McFee - Nov. 13, 2019 While attending the PEARC conference, Maggie and Austin ran into some of our Yale Research Computing counterparts: Kaylea, Robert, and Ben. While there's an intense sports rivalry between the two schools, this wasn't the case with our RC departments. We really hit it off well and we talked about our similarities, differences,…
What’s Old is New Again
by Paul Edmon, November 4, 2019 As Solomon said "there is nothing new under the sun", and so it is with archival technology. Hollywood it seems has stumbled on the trick of etching glass to store data for long term (i.e. centuries). Fun thing is this is a return to previous methods of storage. A general rule about data, the…
A Cautionary Tale
by Paul Edmon, October 16, 2019 First, in order to not bury the lede, if you are a chemist using or have used the "Willoughby-Hoye" python scripts please be advised that there is a bug which may impact your results. It is advised that you re-verify your results with the updated patched version. See these articles for more details: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216…
FASRC Cluster Refresh 2019
As of the November 2019 rankings, Cannon has ranked #144 on the Top500 list! For current cluster details, please see: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/cluster-architecture/ For current partition configurations and changes, please see the Running Jobs page The lease on the Odyssey compute cluster comes to an end this year, and a hardware refresh of the cluster will occur in September. Current ETA for…
Odyssey 3 Upgrade Complete (June 2018)
As of May 22nd 2018, the new Odyssey 3 cluster is fully operational. All login nodes and compute nodes* on the Odyssey cluster are running CentOS 7, have CentOS 7 modules, and the ability to use Singularity containers enabling you to build specialized software for yourself. Please see our updated/additional documentation, including: CentOS 7 Transition FAQ Running Jobs Singularity on Odyssey…
Odyssey 3, The Next Generation (Nov 2017)
Summary UPDATE: The upgrade to CentOS 7 is complete as of the May annual power downtime and Odyssey 3 is fully operational. All login nodes and compute nodes on the Odyssey cluster are running CentOS 7, have CentOS 7 modules, and the ability to use Singularity containers enabling you to build specialized software for yourself. Please see our updated documentation,…
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