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ARCSIM Office Hours

We’re offering hybrid office hours to better meet your needs! ARCSIM (Advanced Research Computing, Data Security, and Information Management) will be offering regular office hours for technical, consulting, and general informational needs for faculty, staff, and students with research-related questions. This will be held as a hybrid biweekly meeting on the first and third Thursdays […]

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Developing Living and Breathing Documentation for the Research Community

By Daniel Timmermann Continuing in its mission to support the University of Maine System research community and collaborators, UMaine’s Advanced Research Computing, Data Security, and Information Management (ARCSIM) unit works to create comprehensive and accessible training materials for anyone seeking to work with high performance computing and data analysis resources. Recently, Laura Jackson, an integrative […]

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UMaine Advanced Research Computing, Data Security, and Information Management (ARCSIM) to host webinar

UMaine Advanced Research Computing will be hosting a webinar on February 9th from 3:30 – 5:00 pm. Topics discussed will include: 1. Overview of ARC services; Shane Moeykens, Director of Advanced Research Computing 2. Demonstration of the OnDemand user environment at Ohio Supercomputing Center; Kevin Wentworth, Manager of Research Information Management and Computing Systems 3. […]

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NSF Funding Opportunity: Campus Cyberinfrastructure

Anticipated Funding Amount: $13,000,000 to $15,000,000 pending availability of funds and quality of proposals received. Introduction: The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program invests in coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Learning and workforce development (LWD) in cyberinfrastructure is explicitly addressed in the program. Science-driven requirements are the […]

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Cloud partner update: Ohio Supercomputer Center switches to Slurm

One of UMaine Advanced Research Computing group’s partners, the Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC) will switch to Slurm for job scheduling and resource management on the Owens cluster during the December 15 downtime. OSC highly recommends that all members of the client community test their workflow in the Slurm environment before the migration to avoid any interruptions […]

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Cloud partner update: TACC officially migrated to new “Ranch” system

In March of 2019, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) a partner of UMaine Advanced Research Computing, announced a migration to a new archive system named “Ranch.” The older system was officially decommissioned as of December 1, 2020. Please note the following: All data newer than March 25, 2019 is already in the new Ranch […]

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Ohio Supercomputer Center hosts “Intro to Supercomputing at OSC” webinar

One of the UMaine Advanced Research Computing group’s partners, the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), will be hosting a webinar titled “Introduction to Supercomputing at OSC” on January 13, 2021 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Both those interested in learning about OSC services and those who want to utilize their resources more efficiently are encouraged to […]

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Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) expands Pitzer Cluster, migrates to Slurm

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), which is one of UMaine Advanced Research Computing (ARC)’s high performance computing partners, has recently expanded their Pitzer Cluster. In September 2020, OSC installed an additional 398 Intel® Xeon® ‘Cascade Lake’ processor-based nodes as part of an expansion cluster and reached full production status on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. This […]

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