National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS)

10/16/2020

System Administrator position open!

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03/28/2018

Register for XSEDE's upcoming MPI Workshop!

https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar

https://www.nics.utk.edu/article/xsede-hpc-workshop-mpi-april-3-4

The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at UT and NIMBioS host an XSEDE workshop on different topics each month related to high performance computing. XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two-day MPI workshop, to be held April 3-4, 2018. Thi...

03/19/2018

The ACF adds 16 Skylake nodes bringing the core count to 5208!

The below table describes the initial resources available to users of the ACF. Node SetIntel® Xeon® CPUNodesCores/NodeGB Mem/NodeTotal CoresInterconnect Beacon E5-2670 43 16 256 688 FDRRho E5-2670 48 16 32 768 QDR Sigma E5-2680 118 24 128 2,832 FDR Monster E5-2687W 1 24 1,024 24 EthernetKNL Phi® ...

03/16/2018

ACF Spring Training Day 2 - OpenMP

03/14/2018

RIP Stephen Hawking

Physicist and icon of science dies at age 76

03/09/2018

Plan on joining us for the 1st annual ACF Spring Training! Check out the link for agenda and registration.

The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences invites you to a Spring Training Workshop. The training workshop will last for two days with hands-on exercises on ACF Cluster. This is a coordinated effort to increase HPC awareness among the academic community. Different topics will be introduced star...

08/08/2017

https://www.nics.utk.edu/article/nics-helps-arcornl-summer-institute

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) hosted the 28th annual student summer STEM institute, during which the students worked on cutting-edge science projects with mentors at ORNL. The student projects this summer…

12/08/2016

JICS supported research in Nature

http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2016104

Global flaring of associated petroleum gas is a potential emission source of particulate matters (PM) and could be notable in some specific regions that are in urgent need of mitigation.

12/08/2016

Student wins with Beacon....

http://news.uark.edu/articles/37310/engineering-student-wins-second-place-at-international-research-competition

Chenggang Lai, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, has won second place at the ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition.

11/04/2016

Condolences to family and colleagues.

http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2016-11-04/klaus-schulten.html

URBANA – University of Illinois physics professor Klaus Schulten, a great innovator of computational methods

11/04/2016

NICS offers new service to UT research community! https://www.nics.tennessee.edu/xsede-proposal-review-service

The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS), an institute of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and its national computing facility, the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), is pleased to announce a proposal review service to the University of T...

08/23/2016

http://insidehpc.com/2016/08/nsf-awards-110-million-to-bring-advanced-cyberinfrastructure-to-nations-scientists-engineers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $110 million award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and 18 partner institutions to continue and expand activities undertaken through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).