Announcements

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

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!

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.

Check out the New Kestrel Blog!

March 24, 2023

The newest high-performance computing system, Kestrel, is about to take flight at NREL! Follow the journey of EERE’s latest supercomputing technology in the new Kestrel blog! The first components of the Kestrel supercomputer will arrive at NREL on March 20.

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

Kestrel Update

March 24, 2023

Kestrel will be shipping soon and is on track for a Q4 availability!

Data Security Best Practices

March 24, 2023

HPC Operations strongly recommends against setting world writeable (chmod o+rwx or 777) permissions on either your /home or /scratch directories

HPC Office Hours

March 24, 2023

HPC office hours are being held remotely via Teams on a bi-weekly basis alternating between Tuesday and Thursday at 11am. Please see the NREL HPC Training page: NREL HPC Training page.

New to HPC - Get Help

Oct. 16, 2022

Support and Help Contact information and sites available in this announcement.

CSC Tutorials Team and Channels

Oct. 16, 2022

Staff in the Computational Science Center host multiple tutorials and workshops on various computational science topics throughout the year, such as Visualization, Cloud, HPC, and others. 

In Microsoft Teams, a “Computational Sciences Tutorials” public team was just created to be the hub for all such tutorials and workshops.  Benefits to using the the team include the following:


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