Announcements

  • April 20, 2023, Announcements

    Upcoming LCRC Outage Starting May 7

    OUTAGE COMPLETE (5/12/2023 16:52:00): All LCRC resources should be back online now. If you have any issues, please email support at lcrc.anl.gov. — LCRC Users, The building 240 data center, which houses all the LCRC resources, will experience a complete shutdown of cooling and a … Read More

  • April 3, 2023, Announcements

    FY23 Quarter 3 LCRC Allocations Granted

    LCRC Users, LCRC projects have been granted allocations for FY23 Quarter 3 (April-June) on Bebop and Swing. If your project requested time and was approved for Quarter 3, you can check the project balance by running the following command on any Bebop or Swing nodes: … Read More

  • September 23, 2022, Announcements

    Notes on Upcoming FY23 Q1 Allocations

    LCRC Users, Due to the timing of the new quarter falling on the weekend, FY23 Q1 LCRC allocations will instead be granted right around 10AM on Monday, October 3, 2022. The FY22 Q4 allocations will be extended till Oct 3rd. In addition, a short reservation … Read More

  • August 9, 2022, Announcements

    LCRC Project Renewals and New Project Requests for FY2023 are due Sept. 9th 2022

    LCRC Users, LCRC FY2023 project renewals and new project requests are due at 5:00 PM CDT on Friday, September 9, 2022. Important note to Users: Blues will be decommissioned on September 30, 2022, and hence Bebop will be the only CPU focused cluster available … Read More

  • March 7, 2022, Announcements, John Low

    Molpro User Notes

    Molpro is a comprehensive toolkit for ab initio electronic structure calculations. See https://www.molpro.net/ for more details.We have built Molpro 2022.1.1 using Global Arrays with the MPI-PR option. This means that your Molpro job will actually run with one less task per node … Read More

  • December 9, 2021, Announcements

    LCRC News and Notes for December 2021

    Hello! Below we have outlined a few important notes regarding the LCRC systems including the upcoming holiday schedule. If you have any questions, please email support at lcrc.anl.gov. Thanks for another great year and happy holidays! Maintenance on Monday, December 13, 2021 We will … Read More

  • November 1, 2021, Announcements

    November 2021 Maintenance Day Moved for Power Outage

    LCRC Users, We are moving November’s monthly maintenance in LCRC due to an upcoming building and datacenter power outage starting end of day Friday, November 19th, 2021. To prepare for this, we will need to shut down all LCRC resources on Friday, November 19th around … Read More

  • October 1, 2021, Announcements

    FY22 Quarter 1 LCRC Allocations Approved

    LCRC Users, LCRC projects have been approved for allocations for FY22 Quarter 1 (starting today, 10/1/2021) on Bebop, Blues and Swing. If your project requested time and was approved for Quarter 1, you can check the project balance by running the following command on any … Read More

  • September 23, 2021, Announcements, John Low

    Quantum Espresso 6.8 on Bebop and Swing.

    Version 6.8 of Quantum Espresso has been benchmarked on Bebop on the Broadwell, Knights Landing, and Swing.  These builds can be found in subfolders of /soft/espresso/6.8/{bdw,knl-omp, and swing}.  There are sample bash scripts in the /soft/espresso/6.8/{bdw,knl-omp, and swing}/examples folders which can be submitted as batch … Read More

  • September 15, 2021, Announcements, John Low

    User Notes for Quantum Espresso on Swing

    We have built Quantum Espresso (QE) 6.8 optimized for the A100s on Swing. The binaries are installed in /soft/espresso/6.8/swing/bin. Note that only pw.x is optimized for swing. We observe speedups ranging from a factor of 6 to a factor of 2 for models containing hundreds … Read More

  • July 12, 2021, Announcements

    July 2021 Maintenance Day Moved for Power Outage

    LCRC Users, We are moving the July 2021 monthly maintenance in LCRC due to an upcoming building and datacenter power outage on Monday, July 19th. To prepare for this, we will need to shut down the LCRC resources on Sunday, July 18th at noon Central … Read More

  • June 24, 2021, Announcements

    Retiring Blues GPU Nodes on August 1, 2021

    LCRC Users, We will soon be retiring what is left of the Blues GPU nodes in the ‘biggpu’ queue. These nodes are slated to be turned off on August 1, 2021. These nodes and cards are very old now and vendor support for them has … Read More

  • April 1, 2021, Announcements, John Low

    How to use VASP 6.2.0 on swing.

    We have built the open_acc version of VASP.6.2 for swing. You will generatlly find your calculations will run several times faster on GPUs than on a broadwell node. The speedup you get will depend on the size of your model and the values of KPAR … Read More

  • April 1, 2021, Announcements

    LCRC Swing GPU Cluster Now Available

    LCRC Users, LCRC is opening up the Swing GPU cluster for general access starting now! LCRC users now have access to 6x nodes with 8x NVIDIA A100 40GB GPUs each. Full details in the links below. Information about running jobs on Swing is available here: … Read More

  • February 3, 2021, Announcements

    New Bebop Preemptable KNL Partition

    LCRC Users, LCRC has set up a new preemptable queue on the KNL partition (named as knl-preemptable). This covers all of the same nodes in the knlall partition. The preemptable queue is largely targeted towards users who need to run jobs but do not have … Read More

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