Announcements

Read announcements for NREL’s high-performance computing (HPC) system users. 

Check your AUs!

Oct. 12, 2023

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).

Expanded HPC Office Hours

Oct. 12, 2023

With the introduction of Kestrel, the HPC Support team is now offering open HPC Office Hours sessions once a week! These are drop-in sessions to meet with User and Applications Support staff members to ask your questions. These sessions are being held on a rotating schedule of Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Please see the HPC Training Calendar for the current weekly schedule and a link to the Teams meeting to join.

Kestrel Blog - Kestrel: Why Speed Matters

Aug. 3, 2023

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!

Github Documentation is now available to users!

Aug. 3, 2023

Advanced Computing Operations and Computational Sciences Applications worked together to provide updated HPC documentation in Github.  With Kestrel availability coming soon, the team worked together to remove more in-depth technical documentation from hpc.nrel.gov and moved it to Github Documentation.

CSC Tutorials - adding/removing yourself from the Team

Aug. 3, 2023

Many of you have requested to be added or removed from the Team. Please follow the instructions below:

Kestrel Blog - A VIP Visit and Celebration for Kestrel

June 12, 2023

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

This was a very exciting day for Kestrel! U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the NREL campus to help showcase and celebrate the laboratory's new campus expansion projects. Among many exciting activities of the day, the secretary joined NREL staff and representatives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to sign the supercomputer!

NREL HPC Workshops - Intro to HPC Series

June 12, 2023

NREL HPC Operations and Application Support teams will host an Intro to HPC workshop series every Wednesday from 12-1 p.m. starting June 7th.  Webinar information to follow.

Topics/Schedule (links directly to the invite on SharePoint):

NREL HPC Systems and Linux Fundamentals on June 7th 12-1
Resource Management: Slurm on June 14th 12-1
Software Environments on June 21st 12-1
Jupyterhub on June 28th 12-1

NREL HPC User Accounts are recommended for each of the presentations to allow participation: Request an Account.

As always, this presentation will be recorded and made immediately available to members of the public Teams Channel, Computational Sciences Tutorials here: Recordings.

FY24 HPC Allocation Cycle: Call for Requests

May 10, 2023

NREL runs an annual open call on behalf of EERE for research and development projects to request use of a defined quantity, or allocation, of the compute resources at NREL. This notification serves as the announcement of this call for allocation requests. The allocation period of performance runs from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.


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