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Status and Service Updates

Savio HPC Cluster is Back to Service: Fri, 2/21

We have completed the scheduled DDN work, including replacing cables and updating firmware. Savio services have been returned, and your jobs have started running. Remember that Global Scratch is almost running at its maximum capacity. Please remove unnecessary files and directories to help us keep the file system running optimally so that you can conduct productive research.

Savio Downtime: Thurs, 2/20-Fri, 2/21, 2025

DDN engineers will visit the data center to perform cabling work on the Savio parallel file system, which is expected to resolve ongoing filesystem issues. We will shut down the file system at 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 20, and return the service by 5:00 PM on Friday, February 21. A Slurm reservation is in place to prevent jobs from running during the downtime. If you plan to submit jobs, please request proper walltime for them to be completed before 8 AM on February 20. Otherwise, your jobs will wait in the queue until the cluster is back online.

Globus Returned to Service: Wed, 1/15

Globus is back in production and available to users on Savio.

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News Articles

New pool of Big Memory compute nodes now accessible on Savio

August 17, 2016

A new pool of compute nodes is now accessible to users of Savio, the campus’s high-performance computing cluster. The Savio 2 BigMem pool currently offers four nodes with...Read more about New pool of Big Memory compute nodes now accessible on Savio

Fine photographs of fungus

August 16, 2016

Collaboration among researchers in the curation of digital resources is becoming the norm these days. However, even if your intention is to make your digital assets available to the research community and to link them appropriately, it can still be challenging to make that happen.

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RIT staff attends visualization workshop

August 15, 2016

Quinn Dombrowski, Digital Humanities Coordinator in Research IT, participated earlier this month in the Broadening Participation in Visualization workshop held at Purdue University and the University of...Read more about RIT staff attends visualization workshop