Hopper Featured Announcements
max wall time for reg_small increased to 48 hrs
January 4, 2012 by Helen He | 0 Comments
The max wall time for Hopper jobs using up to 682 nodes (16,368 cores, corresponds to the "reg_small" queue) has been increased from 36 hrs to 48 hrs. Notice that jobs should still be submitted to the "regular" queue.
New scavenger Queue
November 7, 2011 by Francesca Verdier | 0 Comments
There is a new queue, called scavenger, available on Hopper and Franklin to users with a zero or negative balance in one of their repositories. This applies to both total repository balances as well as per-user balances. The queue is not available for jobs submitted against a repository with a positive balance. The charging rate for this queue is 0 and the priority on all systems is lower than the “low” queue. The Hopper scavenger queue limits are:
large Hopper jobs now discounted 40 percent
October 4, 2011 by Francesca Verdier | 0 Comments
Effective October 1 NERSC has increased the discount for large Hopper jobs from 25% to 40%. Large jobs are defined to be those using 683 or more nodes. The new queue charge rate for the reg_med, reg_big and reg_xbig queues is now .6 (and has been applied retroactively to Oct 1).
Hopper scheduled maintenance and new software available
September 14, 2011 by Helen He | 0 Comments
Hopper will have a scheduled maintenance on next Wed, September 21, from 8am to 4pm Pacific time. A long list of new software versions are now available (as non-default) on Hopper. Details can be found in this announcement.
Intel compiler available on Hopper
August 10, 2011 by Helen He | 0 Comments
The Intel compiler suite is now available on Hopper. The current installed version is 12.0.4.191.
To use the Intel compiler:
% module swap PrgEnv-pgi PrgEnv-intel
Then use the Cray wrappers ftn, cc, and CC to compile the Fortran, C, and C++ codes, respectively.
