NICS is home to Beacon, an advanced computing resource that supports computational scientists around the country.
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by the University of Tennessee. NICS manages Beacon, an advanced computing system, and is a project of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, a partnership between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
10/16/2020
System Administrator position open!
HPC System Administrator - Joint Institute for Computational Science Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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
XSEDE HPC Workshop: MPI - April 3 & 4 | National Institute for Computational Sciences 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!
ACF System Overview | National Institute for Computational Sciences 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
Scientists Mourn Stephen Hawking's Death Physicist and icon of science dies at age 76
Plan on joining us for the 1st annual ACF Spring Training! Check out the link for agenda and registration.
ACF Spring Training Workshop | National Institute for Computational Sciences 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...
https://www.nics.utk.edu/article/nics-helps-arcornl-summer-institute
NICS helps with ARC/ORNL Summer Institute | National Institute for Computational Sciences 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…
JICS supported research in Nature
http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2016104
A global gas flaring black carbon emission rate dataset from 1994 to 2012 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
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
Klaus Schulten URBANA – University of Illinois physics professor Klaus Schulten, a great innovator of computational methods
NICS offers new service to UT research community! https://www.nics.tennessee.edu/xsede-proposal-review-service
XSEDE Proposal Review Service | National Institute for Computational Sciences 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
NSF Awards $110 Million for XSEDE 2.0 - insideHPC 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).
