Staff Spotlight: Jacob Roberts
Jul. 2, 2018—Jacob is a graduate of Tennessee Tech University and has been with ACCRE since 2013. His primary responsibilities at ACCRE include managing custom gateways for research groups and maintaining Nagios, the monitoring software used by ACCRE. In his free time, Jacob enjoys swing dancing.
6/28/2018: A Hodge-Podge of Cool ACCREesque and Pythonic Tips and Tricks with Chris Moth
Jun. 27, 2018—Update 6/29/2018: Slides for this talk are available here. Chris Moth, an Application Developer in Structural Biology, presented some practical methods for best using the ACCRE cluster. Topics included bash scripting, efficient monitoring of SLURM jobs, job arrays, Python, SQL, and Javascript, among others. When: Thursday, June 28, 11:30am – 12:30pm Where: Featheringill Hall, Room 134...
[Resolved] Cluster inaccessible
Jun. 22, 2018—Update, 10:46am: The cluster is back up and running. Original post: ACCRE appears to be inaccessible at the moment. We are currently investigating and will have an update soon. Thanks!
ACCRE CentOS 7 Environment and Changelog
May. 25, 2018—In Summer 2018, ACCRE will be transitioning the cluster operating system from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. During this process, two parallel environments will be available: one running CentOS 6 and the other running CentOS 7. Compute resources will gradually (over the course of several months) be transitioned from the old environment to the new...
4/25/2018: Julia Programming Language with Nick Eubank (Updated Video)
May. 4, 2018—Update, May 4: A previous version of this page contained video of Nick’s talk where the presentation slides did not appear correctly on the screen. The video has been fixed. Nick Eubank, a post doc from Political Science, presented a seminar on the Julia programming language on Wednesday, April 25 between 12:15 – 1:15PM in Featheringill Hall,...
MATLAB Now Free to Use on Cluster
May. 2, 2018—We are happy to announce that MATLAB is now free to use on the cluster! There is now no need to purchase a license through the Software Store. As long as you have an ACCRE account, you are free to use MATLAB. For details on using MATLAB on the cluster, please refer here. ACCRE Staff
Research Spotlight: Tier 2 CMS Research with Prof. Vicki Greene
Apr. 19, 2018—Vanderbilt is a Tier 2 center of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator operated by CERN on the border between France and Switzerland. Being a Tier 2 center means that we receive data for analysis, production and storage from Fermilab, a Tier 1 center in Chicago, which in turn gets...
[Resolved] Full ACCRE cluster downtime on Friday, April 20 at 6pm, continuing through weekend
Apr. 6, 2018—Update, 4/22/2018: We’re happy to report that the cluster is now back online and available for general use. The filesystem check and repair went very smoothly. Only one additional, noncritical file (making a total of three) was identified by the scan as being corrupt, and the subsequent repair corrected all three of these files. We still...
[Resolved] SLURM Socket Timeout Errors
Mar. 26, 2018—Updated 4/3, 2:44pm: We will continue to monitor SLURM responsiveness closely, but for now it is very good. Please submit a ticket if you encounter any further problems. Thanks! Updated 3/28, 1:35pm: We are continuing to work on SLURM responsiveness, though it has improved since Sunday. We are in communication with the makers of...
Staff Spotlight: Will French
Mar. 19, 2018—Will’s background is in molecular modeling and computational chemistry. He obtained his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering right here at Vanderbilt working with Peter Cummings. Will teaches a semester-long course (SC 3260/5260) each semester in high-performance computing and enjoys working with research groups to help them accelerate their research pipelines through the ACCRE environment.