This message was sent to all active FASRC account holders on Nov. 13, 2025   Harvard FAS Research Computing Website | Documentation | Training | Status FAS Research Computing (FAS RC), with support from the FAS Division of Science, will be transitioning to a new storage infrastructure in the coming months.  Upcoming changes: Modernizes and consolidates FAS RC storage systems, migrating ...

FASRC has worked closely with Starfish to create a system allowing not only accurate storage cost recovery, but to allow researchers and PIs an insight into their storage usage and tools for managing that storage.:th You can read more in a two-part blog series from Starfish: Chapter One: How Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science Research Computing ...

Over the past several years FASRC has seen remarkable growth in GPU demand. The gpu partition has been regularly oversubscribed with near constant 100% utilization. Looking at future trends, GPU computation will only become more popular. With this in mind, FASRC is pleased to announce the new gpu_h200 partition on Cannon. This partition is made up ...

It is time for our annual operating system (OS) upgrade for our two clusters, Cannon and FASSE. Unlike previous years we have separated the upgrade from our annual power outage. This was to make it easier for FASRC staff to deal with any unforeseen issues coming out of the power outage and to simplify the ...

UODATE: June 5th 9am - Downtime is complete, Return to full service The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled.  This year's power downtime will take place on Tuesday June 3, 2025.  Monday June 2nd -  Power-down begins at 9AM Tuesday June 3rd - Power out at MGHPCC Wednesday June 4th - Maintenance tasks and then power-up ...

FAS Research Computing will be moving floors in our Boston data center in early 2025. This will require at least two downtimes to accomplish. The first phase will be completed Jan 12-13, 2025. Phase 2 will take place Jan 21-23 and will be less disruptive and will not require a cluster shutdown. Phase 2: The cluster ...

FAS Research Computing will be moving floors in our Boston data center in early 2025. This will require at least two downtimes to accomplish. The most impactful will be the first move of our Boston Isilon storage which houses all user home directories.  Phase 1: The cluster will be offline until Tuesday 1/14. This first move will ...

This was sent as an email(s) to all cluster users on Nov 1st, 2024. It has been edited here to provide additional information about moving data. We’re excited to introduce netscratch, a high-performance scratch filesystem powered by Vast Data. After thorough evaluation, Vast Data’s advanced flash technology stood out for its performance and scalability, making it our solution ...

POWERUP COMPLETE 6:20PM See Status Page   The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled.  This year the power outage will take place on a Wednesday/Thursday the week before the Memorial Day long weekend (Mon. 5/27/24). Ordinarily this is happens during a Monday/Tuesday or Tuesday/Wednesday timeframe, but due to scheduling conflicts with ...

Summary FASRC is adding 216 Intel Sapphire Rapids nodes with 1TB of RAM each, 4 Intel Sapphire Rapids nodes with 2TB of RAM each and 144 A100 80GB GPUs to the Cannon cluster. The Sapphire Rapids cores will be made available in the new ‘sapphire’ partition. The new A100 GPUs will be added to the ‘gpu’ ...

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 ...

by Paul Edmon June 3, 2022 A common pitfall of High Performance Computing (HPC) scheduling is cluster fragmentation.  This is not unique to HPC mind you, any system where you have a limited amount of space that you try to fill with quasi random sized blocks of stuff will end up fragmented at some level (see ...

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syLHtxOH9Rc

  We have some exciting news about new resources we want to share with you. In the summer of 2019 we invested in direct water cooling and were able to bring you the Cannon cluster with 32,000 of the fastest Intel Cascade Lake cores. This 8-rack block of compute has formed the core of our computational ...

AUDIENCE: All Python/Conda users IMPACT: Potential malicious packages installed or malware downloaded Numerous packages containing malware/malicious links have been uploaded to the PyPI (Python Package Index) repository. Many of these have names which are slight misspellings of the names of other packages. The intention is to cause an installation of one of these packages if the package ...

2020 - A year full of changes   2020 began somewhat normally, except that the world was coming to grips with a global pandemic. By February plans were being formed for a probable change to 100% remote work for FASRC staff. This became a reality in March and we bid our offices in '38' farewell for some ...