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  • Blue Waters Notice: portal maintenance

    Created by: gbauer 2021-03-10 10:55:09 (Channels: general)

    The Blue Waters portal will be rebooted Friday morning, March 12th, at 8:30 am to update software and database. The reboot is expected to take less than 5 minutes.

    No changes to the content of the portal are expected.

  • Blue Waters Announcement: Winter Holiday service availability

    Created by: gbauer 2020-12-17 12:52:56 (Channels: general)

    Blue Waters partners; NCSA staff will observe the University of Illinois Winter break schedule starting 5pm Wednesday December 23, 2019, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2020. Staff will monitor Blue Waters and periodically check service requests during this time, and respond to issues in a timely...
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  • Blue Waters Policy Update: Idle Session Timeouts

    Created by: jenos 2020-05-14 16:14:05 (Channels: policychange)

    Blue Waters Users: This is an update for a minor policy change. Login Nodes: Currently, idle sessions are disconnected by ssh after 4 hours for terminal security. This will not change. Additionally, login nodes have a 3 day timeout for idle sessions (this terminates idle screen sessions that the ssh idle timer may leave...
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  • Blue Waters Update: RSA deactivation

    Created by: jenos 2020-04-07 16:22:40 (Channels: systemnotices|policychange)

    Blue Waters partners- RSA authentication has been deactivated as scheduled, with one exception noted below due to Globus staff availability and illness circumstance. Please note that the Globus Organizational login page will continue to accept RSA, but you may also use your Globus account, as described here.  An updated schedule for...
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  • Blue Waters Notice: RSA deactivation on 4/7/2020

    Created by: jenos 2020-03-31 10:02:31 (Channels: systemnotices|policychange)

    Blue Waters partners-   As noted previously, RSA authentication to Blue Waters has an upcoming deactivation scheduled.  The replacement authentication method via Duo was activated on Blue Waters in December, 2019. If you have not set up Duo and tested Duo authentication yet (for ssh or Globus endpoints), please do so as...
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  • Reminder: Blue Waters System Changes

    Created by: jenos 2020-01-14 00:08:02 (Channels: systemnotices|policychange|newfunctionality)

    Blue Waters Users: In December 2019, you received a notification detailing some planned system changes. Transition summary: https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/transition January 14, 2020 is the planned date to effect two changes worth noting: SSH host key change for those using RSA-based access to login nodes Accessing logins via ssh for some may yield an alarming warning...
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  • Blue Waters Announcement: Winter Holiday service availability

    Created by: gbauer 2019-12-23 10:34:28 (Channels: general)

    Blue Waters partners; NCSA staff will observe the University of Illinois Winter break schedule starting 5pm Monday December 23, 2019, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2020. Staff will monitor Blue Waters and the service request system during this period, and respond to issues in a timely...
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  • Blue Waters Operations Transitioning

    Created by: jenos 2019-12-19 19:03:08 (Channels: mandatory|systemnotices|general|policychange)

    Hello Blue Waters partners, Today marks the conclusion of regular NSF Blue Waters operations and allocations.  Allocations ending today will be granted the normal 90 day grace period to transfer data off Blue Waters storage systems. After today, jobs remaining in the queue will be permitted to run but job submission...
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  • Blue Waters Operations transition - Portal login change

    Created by: bbode 2019-12-03 15:02:16 (Channels: general|policychange)

    Hello Blue Waters partners,    In seven days, on December 10th, the authentication method for the Blue Waters user portal will be changed from the current RSA PIN+tokencode to NCSA Duo. This change will mean that existing Blue Waters users will no longer be able to login to the portal. Most...
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  • Reminder: Next Blue Waters User Call TODAY, Monday, February 18th at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2019-02-18 08:33:00 (Channels: bestpractices|general)

    Join us for the next Blue Waters User call TODAY, Monday, February 18th at 1PM Central. As always we value your input. Please join us. We will discuss on the call:  Nearline and Data Best Practices Recent Events Recent Changes. Outstanding Issues. Utilization, Usage, and other metrics. Upcoming Opportunities.  Slides will be posted to https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/past-webinars before the meeting...
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  • Blue Waters Announcement: Winter Holiday services

    Created by: gbauer 2018-12-21 09:21:34 (Channels: systemnotices|general)

    Blue Waters partners; NCSA staff will observe the University of Illinois Winter break schedule starting 5pm Friday December 21, 2018, and will resume normal business hours on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019. On-call staff will monitor Blue Waters and the service request system during this period, and respond to issues in a...
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  • Blue Waters Announcement: Ongoing Blue Waters Job Discounts

    Created by: gbauer 2018-11-12 21:44:41 (Channels: systemnotices|general|policychange)

    This is a reminder that the first period of job discounts ends on Thursday, November 15th. The second period starts on the 16th but with different criteria. Get your jobs submitted soon. Stop by the NCSA booth and say hi if you are at SC18. > The Blue Waters project is happy to...
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  • BlueWaters system issue

    Created by: mshow 2018-11-05 01:21:18 (Channels: unscheduledoutages|general)

    The system has experienced  a fault that will require a full system shutdown/reboot. This will take several hours before the system is returned to full operations. 

  • Blue Waters Discount Update

    Created by: jenos 2018-11-02 17:22:33 (Channels: systemnotices|general|policychange)

    The previously announced discounts have not changed; however, they have not been activated yet to be reflected in current charges. This is expected to be activated next week, but will be retroactively applied to the original start date of Nov 1, 2018.

     

  • Blue Waters Announcement: Blue Friday Job Discounts start today!

    Created by: jenos 2018-11-01 12:34:44 (Channels: systemnotices|general|policychange)

    The Blue Waters project is happy to announce two job discount periods as our way of saying thank you for another successful year of computing and the your help creating our 2017-2018 annual report.   There are two discount periods: Nov 1 - Nov 15: 50% charge discount on all queues, all jobs completing during...
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  • Blue Waters Operations Extended Until Dec 19, 2019

    Created by: wkramer 2018-10-17 09:52:24 (Channels: general)

    I am very please to announce the NSF approved extending the full service operational period for Blue Waters until at least December 19, 2019. 

    News about allocation opportunities will be coming in the future. 

    Sincerely

    Bill Kramer

    Blue Waters PI

  • Final Call for Blue Waters Illinois Allocations

    Created by: gbauer 2018-10-12 15:28:39 (Channels: general)

    Apologies in advance if you get this more than once.         Final Call for Blue Waters...
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  • Reminder: Next Blue Waters User Call, Monday, September 17th at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2018-09-16 19:24:27 (Channels: general)

    Join us for the next Blue Waters User call, Monday, September 17th at 1PM Central. We value your input. Please join us. We will discuss on the call:  Recent Events Recent and Future Changes. Moving to recent Programming Environment update. See PE Update page for details. New PGI compiler. bwpy 2.0 update Outstanding Issues. Utilization, Usage, and other metrics. Upcoming...
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  • Reminder: Next Blue Waters User Call TODAY, Monday, August 20th at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2018-08-20 08:45:18 (Channels: bestpractices|general)

    Join us for the next Blue Waters User call TODAY, Monday, August 20th at 1PM Central. We value your input. Please join us. We will discuss on the call:  Recent Events Recent Changes. Outstanding Issues. Utilization, Usage, and other metrics. Upcoming Opportunities.  Slides will be posted to https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/past-webinars before the meeting starts.  Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS...
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  • Rescheduled: Next Blue Waters User Call Tuesday, July 17th at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2018-07-15 21:50:26 (Channels: general|softwareupdate)

    The July User Call has been rescheduled for Tuesday, July 17th at 1PM Central in order to better communicate the changes that will take place during the maintenance on Monday, July 16th; at which time CUDA 9.1 and a new Programming Environment will be installed. During the rescheduled call we will discuss:  Recent Events Recent Changes CUDA...
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  • Reminder: Next Blue Waters User Call Monday, June 18th at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2018-06-15 10:40:09 (Channels: bestpractices|general)

    Please join us for the next Blue Waters User call on Monday, June 18th at 1PM Central. We will discuss on the call:  Recent Events Upcoming Changes. Globus Web Application  CUDA 9.1 (getting closer) Utilization, Usage, and other metrics. Upcoming Opportunities.  Slides will be posted to https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/past-webinars before the meeting starts.  Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:...
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  • Reminder: Next Blue Waters User Call Monday, May 21st at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2018-05-18 13:15:27 (Channels: bestpractices|general)

    Please join us for the next Blue Waters User call on Monday, May 21st at 1PM Central. We will discuss on the call:  Recent and Upcoming Events. Shifter Recent and Upcoming Changes. CUDA 9.1? Singularity Globus CLI Utilization, Usage, and other metrics. Upcoming Opportunities.  Slides will be posted to https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/past-webinars before the meeting starts.  Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:...
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  • Blue Waters Notice: the Blue Waters portal maintenance is complete.

    Created by: gbauer 2018-03-05 13:15:43 (Channels: general)

    Blue Waters partners;

    The maintenance on the Blue Waters portal is complete.

    The maintenance addressed issues of stability and performance.

    We apologize for any inconvenience.

    Please report any issues with the Blue Waters portal to help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu.

    -Blue Waters Project

    https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/

  • Blue Waters Announcement: Winter Holiday services

    Created by: gbauer 2017-12-21 15:49:34 (Channels: systemnotices|general)

    Blue Waters partners; NCSA staff will observe the University of Illinois Winter break schedule starting 5pm Friday December 22, 2017, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018. On-call staff will monitor Blue Waters and the service request system during this period and respond to issues in a...
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  • Blue Waters User Call: October 16th at 1PM Central

    Created by: gbauer 2017-11-17 19:07:47 (Channels: general)

    Blue Waters Partners;   Please join us for the next Blue Waters User call this Monday, October 16th at 1PM Central. During this call, we will review any changes to the system, events and opportunities.  Your feedback is important to us.   We will also discuss on the call:  New email subscription system Recent or Coming Changes...
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