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  • Calling for Research Publications

    RCC needs your help to collect citations for research publications that you have generated

  • RCC Closed for Winter Break

    As a reminder, FSU will be closed for the Winter holiday, starting tomorrow, Dec 24 though Jan 4 . We will re-open on January 5. During this break, our systems will remain online and functional. RCC staff will respond to any critical support requests sent to support@rcc.fsu.edu as soon we …

  • Network Maintenance - Dec 18

    On Thursday, December 18 from 6am until 8am EST, we will conduct maintenance on the primary network switch that serves our data center in the Dirac Science Library.

  • New Storage System Enables BIGDATA Sharing

    Researchers at major Florida universities can now share data faster and easier than ever with a recently deployed new state-wide storage system. This system implemented as an initiative from the the Sunshine State Education and Research Computing Alliance ( SSERCA ) uses DDN's Web Object Storage …

  • NoleStor Upgrade/Maintenance

    We will be upgrading our NoleStor storage system this Friday, November 14, from 9am until 1pm. This means that the system will be offline during that time, including: NoleStor OwnCloud clients All NoleStor NFS mounts on servers The upgrade will provide stability upgrades and bugfixes …

  • RCC Winter Breaks Notice

    FSU will be closed during upcoming winter holidays: Nov 27 and 28 - Thanksgiving Holidays Dec 25 thru Jan 2 - Christmas and Winter Break During these breaks, our systems will remain online and functional. RCC staff will also deal with critical systems outages during breaks. We …

  • HIRING - Technology Specialist position available

    We are now accepting applications for a technology specialist position. Too apply, visit http://fla.st/1zfn2qH or use job opening id 37977 in OMNI. If you have any questions about this position, contact the Interim RCC Director Responsibilities This Research Computing Center (RCC) staff …

  • Blue Waters Supercomputer Research Call for Proposals

    The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation is soliciting research proposals.

  • BASH "Shellshock" Vulnerability

    Greetings all RCC Users, Security experts have recently uncovered a major BASH vulnerability, nicknamed "Shellshock". This affects several major distributions of Linux, including RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, and others. RCC uses all three of these distributions, and has determined that the version …

  • Spear and Lustre Maintenance - Sept 29 & 30

    Spear and Lustre systems will be unavailable on Monday and Tuesday, September 29 & 30 This downtime will be for us to upgrade both systems. We are upgrading Lustre to a new server version, and are moving all Spear systems to Red Hat version 6.5. Let us know if you have any questions or …