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Winter 2020 Announcements
Jupyterlab @ ICS and Jupyter Notebooks for Instruction
ICS Computing Support is Excited to Announce Jupyterub@ICS
In addition to Jupyterlab notebooks, the ICS hub turns any web browser into a Linux Terminal AND offers several web-based apps, including a console, Rstudio, Xdesktop, and VSCode.
Slurm to Replace SGE
Slurm is on schedule to replace SGE for distributed computing jobs. The Slurm cluster is up and running now.
SLURM, unlike SGE, is actively supported and offers improved GPU support, finer tuning of queues, and has already been adopted by the UCI HPC3.
Visit our internal webpage for more information on how to use Slurm at ICS. Send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu with questions and suggestions or if you are interested in converting your cluster from SGE to SLURM.
Singularity Containers
Singularity is a program for running containers on ICS hosts available to any user with an ICS shell account.
Singularity is available on all ICS-managed CentOS hosts for users to run. Use the command `module load singularity` to add the latest available version to your environment.
For more information and a quick start from running docker containers, follow this link to Singularity @ ICS.
AWS Eligible Discount Program
UC System-wide Procurement Services has negotiated an additional pricing discount of 11% to the UC community. You can take advantage of this discount by placing your campus AWS account(s) under the Eligible Discount Program (EDP) master account administered by the Office of Information Technology (OIT). By joining the master account, your AWS bills will roll up to OIT. OIT will pay the consolidated AWS bill monthly and cost recover to the KFS account you provide.
Office 365 OneDrive - Storage Limit Increase to 5 TB
The OIT Windows Services Group (WSG) made a change in November to Office 365 that increased the storage limit of OneDrive from 1 TB/user to 5 TB/user. Click here for more info
