Announcements

  • January 10, 2024, Announcements

    Upcoming System Plans

    The Improv cluster has been in production since late October. The Bebop cluster is 7 years old and will eventually be phased out. We will begin the phase out process by turning off the KNL nodes on Bebop during the next LCRC maintenance in February… Read More

  • November 15, 2023, Announcements

    LCRC Globus Endpoint Replacement

    We have stood up a new Globus Connect Server v5 (GCSv5) collection for LCRC. The new endpoint name is “LCRC Improv DTN”. This new endpoint will replace the legacy LCRC globus server “lcrc#dtn_bebop”. When using Globus to transfer files to/from LCRC, users should now use… Read More

  • October 30, 2023, Announcements

    LCRC Improv Cluster Now Available

    LCRC Community, The Improv cluster is now available to all users. Information about logging in and running jobs on Improv is available: https://www.lcrc.anl.gov/for-users/using-lcrc/running-jobs/running-jobs-on-improv/ The filesystems are mounted at the same locations as on Bebop and Swing, so no data transfers between… Read More

  • September 6, 2023, Announcements

    REMINDER: Maintenance in LCRC on Monday – 9/11/2023

    LCRC Users, We will be performing our monthly maintenance in LCRC on Monday, September 11, 2023. All LCRC clusters will be unavailable during this time. We will send another email after the maintenance ends. Any jobs submitted with a walltime that crosses into the maintenance… Read More

  • August 11, 2023, Announcements

    LCRC Project Renewals and New Project Requests for FY2024 are due Sept. 11 2023

    LCRC FY2024 project renewals and new project requests are due at 5:00 PM CDT on Monday, September 11, 2023. Important note to users: LCRC is anticipating bringing our new cluster – Improv – into production for FY2024 (currently, we are in the “acceptance stage” of… Read More

  • August 4, 2023, Announcements

    FY2023 LCRC Project Reports are due Sept. 4, 2023

    As the PI for an LCRC project, you are required to submit concise reports of the accomplishments for each of your LCRC projects (separately) during the 2023 fiscal year (Oct 2022-Sept 2023). These reports are very important. They document the impact of LCRC as a… Read More

  • July 21, 2023, Announcements

    Upcoming LCRC Outage Starting July 28

    LCRC Users, The building 240 data center, which houses all the LCRC resources, will experience a complete shutdown starting Friday, July 28 through Monday, July 31. ALL LCRC resources will be powered down during this time (compute/login nodes, filesystems, condo nodes, web, etc.). To prepare… Read More

  • July 12, 2023, Announcements, John Low

    LAMMPS on Swing

    LAMMPS on one of Swing’s A100 GPUs is about ten times faster than LAMMPS on a Bebop Broadwell Node. Speedups increase as the size of the model increases.  For models containing more than 50,000 atoms you can expect speedups of more than an order of… Read More

  • July 3, 2023, Announcements

    LCRC FY23 Quarter 4 Allocations Granted

    LCRC Users, LCRC projects have been granted allocations for FY23 Quarter 4 (July-September) on Bebop and Swing. If your project requested time and was approved for Quarter 4, you can check the project balance by running the following command on any Bebop or Swing nodes:… Read More

  • 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

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