Welcome the Smithsonian Institution High Performance Computing Wiki.
This Wiki holds information for the use of HPC resources at the Smithsonian.
Central to the SI HPC resources is the Smithsonian Institution High Performance Cluster (SI/HPC), named Hydra.
- High performance computing is administered by the Office of Research Computing.
- The OCIO data center in Herndon, VA houses the high performance computing cluster, Hydra.
- The documentation is organized as follow:
- A quick start guide;
- Reference pages (technical information about the cluster);
- Cluster Upgrade documentation (past upgrades);
- Cookbooks pages (didactic information on how to run specific tools); (NYA: not yet available)
- FAQs, or frequently asked questions
What's New
- Sep 25 2021
IDL 8.8.1 is available, use:
module load idl/8.8.1Loading idl/8.8 will still load 8.8.0 for a little while. Also the IDL licensing method has changed, you will now see the message:
License: 100554-5516875-BUF License expires 30-Nov-2021.
which is normal (similar to SAO/CfA/CF's installation).
- Sep 14 2021
The next major upgrade of the SI/HPC cluster is completed.
We have made every effort to set up the new configuration as backward compatible as possible, although a few things have changed.
- Please look at the 2021 Cluster Upgrade page for details.
- Reminders
All public disks (
/pooland/scratchonly) are scrubbed once a week.Reasonable requests to restore scrubbed files must be sent no later than the following Friday, by 5pm.
If you have any questions or encounter any problems, email:
SI-HPC-Admin@si.edu for sys-admin related issues, SI-HPC@si.edu for Bioinformatics/Genomics questions, hpc@cfa.harvard.edu for SAO users who need help.
- Past news with more details can be found at the What's New page.
Quick Links
- Cluster monitoring page
- QSub Generator (only accessible within the SI network)
FYI
- References to
Hydra(publications, proposals, etc) should mention the cluster as:
the Smithsonian Institution High Performance Cluster (SI/HPC).
Last updated SGK/MPK.