We have deprecated the Spear IQS tool in favor of using the built-in capabilities of SSH and NoMachine to allow users to connect to Spear. This is effective immediately. Please refer to our updated instructions for connecting to Spear . If you have any trouble connecting, please let us know …

We are planning the annual HPC maintenance period for this summer. This maintenance will occur in stages between July 25 and August 19.

As part of our effort to improve the reliability of our infrastructure, we are migrating our Virtual Machine Cluster (commonly known as "SKY") from the OpenStack platform to the oVirt platform.

We will be updating the SSH hostkeys on the Spear servers today. This could result in failed connections with a "possible dns spoofing detected" error message. To fix this, you will need to update or remove the cached key from your client.

The RCC has received a nice write-up in Campus Technology about our partnership with deepSQL .

We're excited about our newest team member, Cameron Berkley. Cameron joined our systems team in January, 2016. He received his bachelors degree in Scientific Computing from the FSU Department of Scientific Computing where he studied geometric morphometrics and computer vision. He is currently …

The deadline is approaching for the NCSA Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship. The program includes 1 year fellowship $38,000 + $12,000 tuition allowance + 50,000 node hours on Blue Waters HPC System.

Winter break is upon us again! As a reminder, FSU will be closed for the Winter holiday, starting Thursday, Dec 24 though Sunday, January 4. We will re-open on January 4. During this break, our systems will remain online and functional. RCC staff will respond to any critical support requests …

Our very own Bin Chen has published a paper in Scientific Reports which offers more proof of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Applications are now open for the NCSA Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship. The program includes 1 year fellowship $38,000 + $12,000 tuition allowance + 50,000 node hours on Blue Waters HPC System.