- Call for Participation Extended to February 15 for Monterey Data Workshop, April 20-21, 2022
- (NEW) Attention Students: Apply for a Summer Internship at NERSC!
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- January 31, 2022: Deadline for Submissions to Monterey Data Workshop
- February 16, 2022: IDEAS-ECP Monthly Webinar
- February 21, 2022: Presidents Day Holiday (No Consulting or Account Support)
- March 16 & April 20, 2022: Cori Monthly Maintenance
- All times are Pacific Time zone
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Upcoming Planned Outage Dates (see Outages section for more details)
- No outages planned for this week.
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Other Significant Dates
- May 18, June 15, & July 20, 2022: Cori Monthly Maintenance Window
- May 30, 2022: Memorial Day Holiday (No Consulting or Account Support)
- June 20, 2022: Juneteenth Holiday (No Consulting or Account Support)
- July 4, 2022: Independence Day Holiday (No Consulting or Account Support)
- September 5, 2022: Labor Day Holiday (No Consulting or Account Support)
- November 24-25, 2022: Thanksgiving Holiday (No Consulting or Account Support)
- December 23, 2022-January 2, 2023: Winter Shutdown (Limited Consulting and Account Support)
Berkeley Lab, where NERSC is located, is operating under public health restrictions. NERSC continues to remain open while following site-specific protection plans. We remain in operation, with the majority of NERSC staff working remotely, and staff essential to operations onsite. We do not expect significant changes to our operations in the next few months.
You can continue to expect regular online consulting and account support as well as schedulable online appointments. Trainings continue to be held online. Regular maintenances on the systems continue to be performed while minimizing onsite staff presence, which could result in longer downtimes than would occur under normal circumstances.
Because onsite staffing is so minimal, we request that you continue to refrain from calling NERSC Operations except to report urgent system issues.
For current NERSC systems status, please see the online MOTD and current known issues webpages.
The initial phase of the Perlmutter supercomputer is in the NERSC machine room, running user jobs.
We have added many early users onto the machine. We hope to add even more users soon. Anyone interested in using Perlmutter may apply using the Perlmutter Access Request Form.
The second phase of the machine, consisting of CPU-only nodes, is beginning to arrive next month. After all the new nodes arrive, all of Perlmutter will be taken out of service and integrated over a period that we anticipate could take up to 8 weeks. We are developing a plan for integration that will reduce the amount of time the entire system is down. We will let you know when this plan is finalized.
This newsletter item will be updated each week with the latest Perlmutter status.
To help ready your account for Perlmutter, please review your dotfiles. The same
home file system is mounted across all NERSC systems, so your
.bashrc/.cshrc/etc. files (dotfiles) need to work on all systems. The
NERSC_HOST variable can help you distinguish between systems and to set
customizations for each system. The NERSC_HOST variable is set automatically to
"perlmutter" on Perlmutter and to "cori" on Cori.
Some users may have older dot files that are setting the NERSC_HOST variable without first checking to see whether it already has a value, which will cause problems on Perlmutter. Please ensure that this is not the case in your dotfiles. Feel free to reach out to NERSC consulting with any questions or issues.
We are pleased to announce that the E4S/21.11 software stack has been rebuilt
for Perlmutter using GCC version 9.3.0 and NVIDIA version 21.9. We have deployed
a subset of the most commonly used elements of the software stack. It is
accessible via module load e4s/21.11-tcl or module load e4s/21.11-lmod. Both
point to the same spack instance but employ two different types of module trees.
In addition, we have released instructions on using a containerized deployment of E4S via Shifter. The container, provided by the E4S team, includes the full E4S software stack built on Ubuntu 20.04.
For more information, please see the E4S documentation at https://docs.nersc.gov/applications/e4s/perlmutter/21.11/.
The DOE Monterey Data Workshop 2022 is a virtual 2-day meeting to share the latest research in scientific artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in preparation for the Fall 2022 Monterey Data Conference. The Workshop brings together researchers from DOE national laboratories, facilities, universities, and industry to share research in AI and ML. The two primary goals of this meeting are to
- Share best practices and cutting-edge research on scientific AI/ML and broaden participation in the field
- Identify key challenges and technologies in scientific machine learning that will shape invited speakers and discussion at the fall Monterey Data Conference, an invite-only event attended by lab leaders, leading academic and industry partners.
The workshop is designed to promote discussion and feedback. The meeting, a comibination of technical talks, panel/breakout sessions, and time for informal interactions with colleagues, will be held virtually and may provide an on-site venue at Berkeley Lab if possible.
The organizers are seeking speakers to give short (~20 minute) talks on progress, ideas, and/or challenges on AI/ML. We encourage talks from early-career scientists and prioritize talks in the following topical areas:
- Scalable and productive computing systems for AI
- Interpretable, robust, science-informed AI methods
- Novel scientific AI applications at large scale
- AI for self-driving scientific facilities
We are also soliciting ideas for breakout sessions and volunteers to lead these sessions related to the above topics.
For more information and to submit, please see https://www.montereydataconference.org/workshop-2022. Submissions are due February 15, 2022.
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking for a summer internship opportunity? Consider applying for a summer internship at NERSC! NERSC hosts a number of paid internships on a variety of topics every year.
Please check out the growing list of internship projects on our website. If you're interested in a project, reach out to the appropriate point of contact directly with your CV/resume.
NERSC currently has several openings for postdocs, system administrators, and more! If you are looking for new opportunities, please consider the following openings:
- Scientific Data Architect: Collaborate with scientists to meet their Data, AI, and Analytics needs on NERSC supercomputers.
- Exascale Computing Postdoctoral Fellow: Collaborate with ECP math library and scientific application teams to enable the solution of deep, meaningful problems targeted by the ECP program and other DOE/Office of Science program areas.
- Data & Analytics Team Group Lead: Provide vision and guidance and lead a team that provides data management, analytics and AI software, support, and expertise to NERSC users.
- Cyber Security Engineer: Help protect NERSC from malicious and unauthorized activity.
- Machine Learning Engineer: Apply machine learning and AI to NERSC systems to improve on their ability to deliver productive science output.
- HPC Performance Engineer: Join a multidisciplinary team of computational and domain scientists to speed up scientific codes on cutting-edge computing architectures.
(Note: You can browse all our job openings by first navigating to https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/search/. Under "Business," select "View More" and scroll down to find and select the checkbox for "NE-NERSC".)
We know that NERSC users can make great NERSC employees! We look forward to seeing your application.
- Cori
- 03/16/22 07:00-20:00 PST, Scheduled Maintenance
- 04/20/22 07:00-20:00 PST, Scheduled Maintenance
- 05/18/22 07:00-20:00 PST, Scheduled Maintenance
- HPSS Archive (User)
- 02/23/22 09:00-17:00 PST, Scheduled Maintenance
- The HPSS Archive system will be degraded due to preventative library maintenance. The system will remain available, but some file retrievals may be delayed during the maintenance window.
- 02/23/22 09:00-17:00 PST, Scheduled Maintenance
Visit http://my.nersc.gov/ for latest status and outage information.
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