We are pleased to announce that funding has been allocated by the division of Finance and Administration to perform upgrades and renovations to our data center in the Sliger Building.

As part of our ongoing migration to GPFS, we have setup a new scratch volume.  We encourage all general-access scratch users to move to this new volume as soon as possible.

RCC Collaborator Jose Mendoza-Cortes will give a RAZOR Lecture at the Challenger Learning Center: Towards the Carbon Neutral Holy Grail using Water: A Path to Clean and Sustainable Energy

Our new storage system, GPFS, is now online!  We encourage all Panasas and Lustre users to migrate your home directories to GPFS at your earliest convenience using our migration tool.

The HPC now supports containers!  Using a new tool called Singularity, you can import and run Docker containers.  This allows you to take better control of your runtime environment and provide more reliable workflows.

We've been working to improve the performance and reliability of our data centers in the Sliger and Dirac buildings.  This effort includes a major overhaul of our network and a consolidation of resources into the Sliger Data Center.

We are pleased to announce that are upgrading our parallel storage systems for the HPC and Spear. We have procured a new GPFS filesystem, and over the next several months, we will migrate all user and research data to this new system from Panasas and Lustre. After the consolidation, we will retire the older systems.

We are pleased to announce a new service offering at the RCC: low-cost archival storage.  This is a general-purpose storage platform that replaces the NoleStor service and provides long term, durable storage for research data.

The RCC Systems Team is working to improve the reliability of our systems and services. In that regard, we have scheduled several maintenance windows over the next two months for various systems.

An issue on our Lustre storage system has caused some data to be irrerovacbly lost.  Approximately 12TB (~6.5% of total storage) was affected.