Nersc News

Listen in to find out why NERSC switched to Slurm as its batch system and job scheduler, how Slurm schedules jobs, and how you can get jobs through the queue faster in this interview with NERSC Computational Systems Group lead Doug Jacobsen.

Spin is NERSC's new service platform to be used as a complement to computational tasks. In this interview with NERSC Infrastructure Services Group Lead Cory Snavely and Berkeley Lab computer systems engineer Val Hendrix, find out more about what Spin is, how it's being used for climate data, and how you can start using it too!

In this episode, learn about the scratch filesystems available to NERSC users, why we purge them, and how the purge is performed in this interview with NERSC HPC Storage Systems Analyst Kirill Lozinskiy.

Learn what Identity and Access Management (IAM) is, how NERSC uses it to manage our many users, and our plans for the future, including the potential to enable you to use your institutional identity instead of having to memorize yet another username and password.

Find out more about the maintenance that will bring NERSC offline the weekend of August 18 and 19! Learn what a switchgear is, why it's important, and how NERSC tries to minimize disruptive outages for users in this interview with NERSC Deputy for Operations Jeff Broughton.

Learn what performance portability is, what makes it so difficult to achieve, and tools and programming environments that can help in this interview with NERSC's application performance group leader, Jack Deslippe.

Learn about how some users are using Python in their daily workflows, what a Jupyter notebook is, and how to get the best Python performance at NERSC in this interview with NERSC data architect Rollin Thomas.

Learn about NERSC's Archive HPSS system: what it is, how it works, and how NERSC plans to relocate the data on it from Oakland to the main Berkeley Lab campus!

Learn about what deep learning is, how it can benefit your science, and what Debbie Bard (who leads NERSC's Data Science Engagement Group) has in common with some of the biggest-name bands in the world!

Find out all about multi-factor authentication (MFA) at NERSC, as well as the name of the podcast theme song, in this interview with NERSC security analyst Abe Singer.

A summary of the May quarterly maintenance, plus an interview with NERSC system administrator James Botts on why it takes so long to upgrade the operating system on a supercomputer.