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Various announcements from the Virtual Research Support Core to SCINet users. See also the SCINet Forum Announcements page (must have a SCINet account to access).
For system downtime information see the System Downtime page for planned downtime and SCINet Forum Announcements page (must have a SCINet account to access) about unplanned outages/system status.
The SCINet Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is seeking representatives from the Northeast Area (2 positions), Pacific West Area (1 position), and Statistics (1530 series) (1 position) to serve for 3-year terms beginning March 2024.
Ceres cluster maintenance is scheduled for the week of June 19, to update system software. The cluster will be down for several days.
Ceres cluster maintenance is scheduled for the week of February 20, 2023.
Compute jobs on Ceres might be delayed; please see the SCINet Forum for updates.
The SCINet Policies document in your home directory on Ceres provides an updated SCINet policy.
More SCINet Network Hardware OS Updates.
GNOC plans to upgrade the OS on the SCINet gear at the 6 locations. This will result in connectivity interruptions during the upgrade.
We will not be making priority node purchases through the SCINet Program this year.
Connection Restored on 07-21-2021.
SCINet has launched a new discussion forum that replaces Basecamp.
The SCINet Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is seeking a representative from the Northeast Area for a 3-year term.
Due to major refactoring, updates and policy changes we could not continue using the old database and are starting with a clean slate on galaxy.scinet.usda.gov .
The Atlas Cluster at Mississippi State is now availible to all SCINet Users!
We have a directory available for medium term usage which allows researchers to run multiple jobs against data in this directory over a 90 day period.
