March HPCF Newsletter

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:41:55 -0400

Hi everyone,

I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT.

Summary

Scheduled downtime for March (03/31/26)

Slow read/write files on RRStor

First of the Monthly SIG User Experience Meetings (03/24/26)

Scale-Up Series Continued

Scheduled Downtime (03/31/26)

On March 31, 2026, chip will be taken offline for maintenance. During this time, we will patch the machine hosting the ada volumes and the RRStor. See this post for more information.

Slow Read/Write Files on RRStor

Be advised, we are aware of the ongoing issues with the RRStor filesystem and are actively working with our vendor to resolve the issues. For more information, check out this myUMBC post: "Storage System Performance Update."

First of the Monthly SIG User Experience Meetings (03/24/26)

Yesterday we had our first of the Monthly SIG User Experience meetings. The agenda for what was discussed can be found here. As a reminder, anyone is welcome to attend, and these meetings will take place every month until the end of the semester on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 1200-1300 in Engineering 102.

Scale-Up Series Continued

Our series of tutorials, titled "Scale-Up" continues with tutorial 2 on March 26th and tutorial 3 on April 7th. For more information about the series, check out this site.

Publications
If you have any publications, presentations, theses, or other works that made use of the campus cluster, 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).

As always, keep computin'!
Max Breitmeyer,
HPC System Administrator