Announcements

For more information on using the Kestrel DAV nodes, please see the VirtualGL and FastX page.

Reminder: projects may be awarded AUs on more than one system. Please check the Lex web interface at https://hpcprojects.nrel.gov/ or your allocation's award letter for the system(s) and AUs awarded to your allocation. Please note: not all projects have an Eagle allocation. Unless you were specifically awarded AUs on Eagle, you will not be able to run jobs there. You do not have to be a lead or P.I. to view AUs. If you are a project user, you can also see AUs by logging into Lex (hpcprojects.nrel.gov).

In a short video, hear why Kestrel’s impressive speed really matters, according to Surendra Sunkari, NREL HPC engineer and Kestrel technical lead.

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Advanced Computing Operations and Computational Sciences Applications worked together to provide updated HPC documentation in Github. With Kestrel availability coming soon, the team worked together to remove more in-depth technical documentation from hpc.nrel.gov and moved it to Github Documentation.

Many of you have requested to be added or removed from the Team. Please follow the instructions below:

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This was a very exciting day for Kestrel! U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the NREL campus to help showcase and celebrate the laboratory's new campus expansion projects. Among many exciting activities of the day, the secretary joined NREL staff and representatives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to sign the supercomputer!

NREL runs an annual open call on behalf of EERE for research and development projects to request use of a defined quantity, or allocation, of the compute resources at NREL. This notification serves as the announcement of this call for allocation requests. The allocation period of performance runs from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

HPC Operations strongly recommends against setting world writeable (chmod o+rwx or 777) permissions on either your /home or /scratch directories

The newest high-performance computing system, Kestrel, is about to take flight at NREL! Follow the journey of EERE’s latest supercomputing technology in the new Kestrel blog! The first components of the Kestrel supercomputer will arrive at NREL on March 20.

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