DOWNTIME COMPLETE The annual multi-day power downtime at MGHPCC (https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/2023-downtime/) is complete (with exceptions noted below). Normal service resumes today (Friday June 9th) at 9am. As noted in previous communications, many changes have been made to the cluster and software. If you run jobs on the cluster and did not previously try out the test cluster, you will need to make…
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Social Capital – The strength of our relationships and communities
In a new paper published in Nature, Raj Chetty's group unearths insights into social capital and how it shapes our nation and our people, both socially and economically. Visit The Social Capital Atlas: https://www.socialcapital.org/ Read the paper: Nature 608, pages108–121 (2022) Read the Harvard Gazette story: How Childhood Friendships Sway Economic Mobility
HPC Medical Discovery Revolution
Some faces you may recognize in a video from one of our hardware partners discussing how modern HPC is revolutionizing drug and other health-related discoveries. Miss Annie Jump Cannon also makes an appearance.
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…
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…
Green Computing Today, Not Tomorrow
Harvard and FASRC believe in innovation and a sustainable energy footprint. From our green data center in Holyoke, MA to clean energy initiatives on campus, we are committed to improving the world around us. MGHPCC is our green data center in Holyoke, MA which was purpose-built to achieve sustainable, clean energy and cooling. The new solar array at 38 Oxford…
Odyssey Software Updates, June-2015
Software updates and installs since May 1st: NOTE: All software is installed under the Lmod module system on Odyssey. And please read our guidelines for software install requests. armadillo 5.100.2 Fast C++ matrix library with easy to use functions and syntax, deliberately similar to Matlab ART 031915 Simulation tools to generate synthetic next-generation sequencing reads bcftools 1.2 Set of utilities…
MATLAB Workshop, June 9th
RC will be hosting two workshops on Tuesday, June 9th, at Science Center Hall A. Please see https://rc.fas.harvard.edu/events/matlab-workshop-june-9th/ for details.
Explosion of Research Data Drives “Tipping Point” for IT Facilities
James Cuff, Assistant Dean for Research Computing, sits down with Data Center Knowledge to discuss his upcoming keynote address at the 2015 Data Center World Global Conference. Cuff will talk about the current and future state of the data center in his address. “Data centers are the back bone of civilization,” Cuff said. “Basic science is being done through computing." For…
MATLAB Workshop, November 21st 2014
Date: Friday November 21st, 2014 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM Location: Main campus, TBA Tentative Schedule: 10:00 - 12:30 PM Advanced Programming 12:30 - 1:00 PM Lunch break 1:00 - 3:00 PM Optimizing and Accelerating your MATLAB Code 3:00 - 3:30 PM: FAS Research Computing Services Registration is open! Please register at http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/HarvardFAS2014. Session 1: Advanced Programming This master class…
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