May HPCF Newsletter

Mon, 19 May 2025 15:06:13 -0400
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Hi everyone,

I’m writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF, particularly the new Retriever Research Storage System (RRStor).

System Status

The chip HPC is operating normally and is fully operational.

Updates: 10TiB Storage Allocations for All HPCF PIs

We’ve expanded our enterprise research storage infrastructure with funds from last year’s NSF CC* Award! All research groups now have a 10TiB default quota. The DoIT Research Computing Team will be working with each research group to migrate to the larger volumes. Please note that this change to the default quota is for research storage directories shared by entire research groups and not for individual users’ home directories. Every user home directory has a default quota of 500MiB.

Pro Tip: Any user can use the “hpc_tools/quotas” module to see how much of their storage quotas have been used. This runs by default when a users logs in.

User Support

Please continue to make use of the HPCF Office Hours

We’re always working to make our Wiki Documentation better for users, please let us know if we’ve missed something

Stay tuned for more in-person training and tutorials

SIG

The first meetings of the SIG-CPU and SIG-GPU subcommittees have met. For members of the SIG-GPU subcommittee, please be sure to review the most recent meeting notes sent by Karuna.

Publications

If you have any publications, presentations, theses, or other works that made use of the campus cluster(s), please submit an RT Ticket with bibliographic information so that we can accurately reflect this work in our records and on the HPCF Website.

Need Help?

As always, please communicate any issues/questions to the Research Computing RT Queue (hpcf.umbc.edu > User Support > Request Help).

Thanks for reading,
Roy Prouty
Assistant Director for Research Computing
UMBC DoIT