What's New Archive

The Enterprise-wide Shared License Servers (rls1,2,3) will be inaccessible on Thursday January 26th, 2012 from 2000 to 2200 (8pm-10pm EST) due to DREN maintenance. Jobs starting or running during this time on any production system across the HPCMP enterprise which require communication to the Shared License Server will likely fail.

If you have any questions about this scheduled downtime, please contact the Consolidated Customer Assistance Center (CCAC). The CCAC can be reached via any of the following methods:

- http://www.ccac.hpc.mil
- 1-877-222-2039
- help@ccac.hpc.mil

The MHPCC Mana system will be undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 from 0800 - 2200 (HST).

Logins to Mana will be suspended starting at 0730 (HST).

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services

DREN is scheduled for maintenance on January 29, 2012 starting at 1000 (HST).

This may affect connectivity to MHPCC systems during the 1.5 hour maintenance window.

NOTICE - UPCOMING CHANGES TO SOFTWARE LICENSE RESERVATIONS:

The new Shared License Buffer (SLB) will go into production on 1/30/2012.

As of this date, SLB license reservations will be required to run all SLB-managed software Packages (Abaqus, Accelrys, ANSYS, Cobalt, MATLAB). Job submissions without SLB reservations will be denied software licenses.

For additional information, please visit the CCAC User Portal at help.ccac.hpc.mil.

On Monday, January 16th, 2012 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on January 16th, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

Connectivity to the Shared Application License Servers will be unavailable due to a scheduled Network outage, between the hours of 2000-2200 EST, Wednesday, 11 January 2012.

Running jobs using shared SW licenses may terminate due to the unavailability of the remote SW license servers. Users should plan accordingly.

The Applications that use the remote SW license servers are Abaqus, Accelrys, Ansys, CFD++, Cobalt, Ensight, Fluent (acfd), LS-Dyna, Matlab, Star CD and Totalview.

If you have any questions, please contact the Consolidated Customer Assistance Center (CCAC) at 877-CCAC-039 (877-222-2039).

Thank You, MHPCC User Services

The MHPCC Archive (DRAT) emergency maintenance is completed and the DRAT is functional.

Thank you for your patience during this period; we apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you
MHPCC User Services

On Monday, January 2nd, 2012 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on January 2nd, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

On Monday, December 26th, 2011 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on December 26th, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

In compliance with Baseline Configuration policy FY10-06 (Common DSRC Commands and Tools), the show_quota command has been renamed to show_storage.

For more information regarding this policy, please see the Baseline Configuration Website.

The license server will be undergoing maintenance on Monday, December 12, 2011 starting at 2300 (HST) for 2 hours.

Please plan job runs accordingly within this time frame.

Thank you
MHPCC User Services

On Thursday, November 24th, 2011 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on November 24th, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

The MHPCC Mana system will be undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, November, 23, 2011 from 0800 - 2200 (HST).

Logins to Mana will be suspended starting at 0730 (HST).

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services

On Friday, November 11th 2011 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on November 11th, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

The MHPCC Network will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 1700 - 1900 (HST).

During this time connection to MHPCC systems, including Mana, websites, and documentation, will be disrupted.

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services

The MHPCC Mana & US systems will be undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 0800 - 1700 (HST).

Logins to Mana will be suspended starting at 0730 (HST).

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services

The MHPCC Mana system will be undergoing the annual fiscal year changeover on October 1, 2011.

If you have a FY12 Mana account you will be able to access the Mana system on October 2, 2011 0800 (HST).

If you have a FY11 Mana account you will be able to access the MHPCC Utility Server on October 2, 2011 0800 (HST).

This information is readily available and posted on August 1, 2011 on the CCAC web page at: http://www.ccac.hpc.mil/

Thank you,
MHPCC User Services

MHPCC will be moving to a new paradigm in FY12, your access to MHPCC may be limited. MHPCC and the HPCMO have been working to attain solutions to assist in retrieving your data from the MHPCC system prior to the start of FY12.

All active users who presently run on Mana will have until 14 October 2011 to move their data (local data and archive data) without having to send a new visit request to the MHPCC DSRC. If you have access to Mana on 30 September 2011, you will be able to log into the MHPCC Utility Server on 1 October 2011 to retrieve data.

If you need longer than two weeks to pull data (local data and archive data), you will be required to send a visit request to the MHPCC DSRC. If MHPCC does not receive a visit request for you by 14 October 2011, you will no longer have access to the MHPCC Utility Server; your account will be disabled at 2359 (HST) on 14 October 2011. If a visit request is received, you may continue to move data through 31 December 2011.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your data transfers, please contact help@ccac.hpc.mil.

Thank you for your cooperation in this new DSP effort
MHPCC User Services

The MHPCC Mana system will be undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 from 0800 - 2200 (HST).

Logins to Mana will be suspended starting at 0730 (HST).

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services

We are experiencing an unexpected DREN outage as of 7:40 am (HST) on September 1st, 2011.

This has resulted in an interruption of service.
We are currently working to resolve the issue.

MHPCC User Services

If your Kerberos user principal is hosted at MHPCC.HPC.MIL please disregard the following message and proceed with the normal account renewal process.

The Linux cluster, Mana, at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) will be changing paradigms on 30 September 2011. Submission to the PBS queues will be disabled at 11:59 pm (HST) on 30 September 2011.

We understand that many of you need to transfer data to other resources so users will be allowed to access their MHPCC local/archive data on the system until 5:00 pm (HST) on 14 October 2011. Please ensure that you are able to utilize Mana prior to this date for continued access to our systems.

If more time is needed to acquire your data or you have any questions about this informational message, please contact the Consolidated Customer Assistance Center (CCAC). The CCAC can be reached via any of the following methods:

- http://www.ccac.hpc.mil
- 1-877-222-2039
- help@ccac.hpc.mil

MHPCC User Services

On Monday, September 5th, 2011 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on September 5th, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

We are pleased to announce that the MHPCC DSRC Utility Server (US) is now available for production use. The Utility Server is a component of the HPCMP Enhanced User Environment (HEUE) which is designed to provide computational scientists new tools and capabilities to perform research more efficiently and effectively. Other features of HEUE include the Center-wide File System (CWFS), Center-wide Job Management (CWJM) and Secure Remote Desktop (SRD).

Briefly, these new capabilities will allow the MHPCC DSRC systems user to:

- Access a file system that is common to the Utility Server and Mana login nodes (named on all three machines by the environment variable $CENTER) and provide high-speed access to files from either machine;

- Use robust pre- and post-processing software on the US that will provide high performing remote visualization of data and access to GPU-equipped interactive nodes;

- Remotely and securely obtain a Linux desktop to run GUI versions of popular software including Matlab, EnSight, and ParaView;

- Submit jobs to Mana from the Utility Server via the Center Wide Job Management Service (Please note that this service is still in work and will be forthcoming).

There is also an important storage management component that will allow users to better document archived data and HPCMP to contain rising storage volumes and costs. These SLM features are scheduled for roll-out later this year.

Documentation may be found on the CCAC User Portal at
https://help.ccac.hpc.mil/heue/index.html

(As noted, the documentation refers to the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) which is in the process of implementation and not yet available.)

The MHPCC DSRC US may be accessed by logging in to:
us.mhpcc.hpc.mil

Please do not hesitate to contact the CCAC Help Desk if you have questions or encounter any problems.

MHPCC DSRC

On Friday, August 19th, 2011 MHPCC will be operating on a holiday schedule. The center will be open and all technology services will be available, however MHPCC will be operating at reduced staffing levels.

If you require assistance, onsite staff will be available to respond to Severity 1 Help Desk calls at 808-879-5077, and if necessary, MHPCC will contact other technical staff if needed. If you anticipate requiring any special assistance on August 19th, please contact our User Services department or the CCAC by email or by telephone.

The MHPCC Mana system will be undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 from 0800 - 2200 (HST).

Logins to Mana will be suspended starting at 0730 (HST).

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services

MHPCC will undergo DREN maintenance between 6:00pm and 7:00pm (HST) on Sunday, August 14th, 2011.

This maintenance may result in a brief 5 minute interruption of service.

Please plan accordingly.
MHPCC User Services