Announcements

Recent Outages - Continuity of Operations Plan

The NREL HPC team has two important pieces of news to share with the our HPC user community.

Be on the lookout! The FY24 Annual Report Request will be coming your way, if you have active computing usage, in early July. Please look for an email from HPC ([email protected]) and/or Stratus Cloud ([email protected]). Annual reports are due August 30th, if you want to place an advance notice on your calendars.

We are extending the deadline from Friday, June 14th to Friday, June 21st to allow more time to respond. For more information about the call please see review the Resource Allocation Request page of our website.

The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has released the call for FY 25 requests for computing on Kestrel, NREL's 3rd generation supercomputer. Research and development projects that are funded by EERE Offices as well as NREL projects funded by a non-EERE source are eligible to apply for computing resources for the FY 25 allocation period of performance, which runs Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2025. Learn more about resource allocation requests.

The upgrades for Kestrel continue with considerable progress at the mid-point of the upgrade process.

The Kestrel system will soon undergo a scheduled outage for maintenance and integration of the Phase II GPUs. A tentative outage date has been set for Monday, January 29th at 7:00 AM.

We are working with EERE on a new effort to engage more students in computing and to amplify how computing is used for EERE work. These goals begin with a Kestrel-focused campaign in January, where undergraduate and graduate students from any U.S. college or university can apply for time on Kestrel for their EERE mission-related research project. Students have until Feb. 12, 2024, to apply, and EERE decisions on allocations will be made by early March. Student time on Kestrel will be granted for the remainder of FY 2024.

Stay tuned for upcoming trainings and updates to documentation about the shared partition, and reach out to us if you need any help with getting shared jobs set up.

Welcome to Kestrel! We hope you have already been getting up-and-running on our newest system. This email is meant to provide an extra round-up of the resources that are available to you to help with transitioning to and working on Kestrel.