Announcements

The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has released the call for FY 25 requests for computing on Kestrel, NREL's 3rd generation supercomputer. Research and development projects that are funded by EERE Offices as well as NREL projects funded by a non-EERE source are eligible to apply for computing resources for the FY 25 allocation period of performance, which runs Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2025. Learn more about resource allocation requests.

The upgrades for Kestrel continue with considerable progress at the mid-point of the upgrade process.

The Kestrel system will soon undergo a scheduled outage for maintenance and integration of the Phase II GPUs. A tentative outage date has been set for Monday, January 29th at 7:00 AM.

We are working with EERE on a new effort to engage more students in computing and to amplify how computing is used for EERE work. These goals begin with a Kestrel-focused campaign in January, where undergraduate and graduate students from any U.S. college or university can apply for time on Kestrel for their EERE mission-related research project. Students have until Feb. 12, 2024, to apply, and EERE decisions on allocations will be made by early March. Student time on Kestrel will be granted for the remainder of FY 2024.

Stay tuned for upcoming trainings and updates to documentation about the shared partition, and reach out to us if you need any help with getting shared jobs set up.

Welcome to Kestrel! We hope you have already been getting up-and-running on our newest system. This email is meant to provide an extra round-up of the resources that are available to you to help with transitioning to and working on Kestrel.

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.

Check in often for updates from the team, videos, photos, and more in the Countdown to Kestrel blog!