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2023/11/22

[ maintenance operation of network device ]

Because of the maintenance operation of network device, the connection from outside of Tohoku University will be suspended during the following period.
Nov. 29 (Wed.) 24:00 - 25:30, 2023
* There is communication stops for up to 30 minutes within a period.

2023/11/20

[ update work of network device ]

Because of update work of network device, the connection from outside of IMR, Tohoku University will be suspended during the following period.
Nov. 27 (Mon.) 18:00 - 20:30, 2023

2023/11/13

[ maintenance operation of the supercomputing system ]

Because of the maintenance operation, we will stop the service of the supercomputing system during the following periods.
Nov. 27 (Mon.) 9:00 - Nov. 29 (Wed.) 10:00, 2023

2023/11/ 9

[ GIMRT 2023 December call for FY2024 proposal is open ]

Global Institute for Materials Research Tohoku (GIMRT) Proposal Call for FY2024 is open now.
Please see the GIMRT web site for more details.
Deadline: December 11 (Mon.), 2023

2023/10/26

[ installation of application software ]

We have installed following application software.
Large-scale parallel computing server
・ VASP 6.4.2
・ ABINIT 9.10.3
Accelerator server
・ VASP 6.4.2

2023/10/13

[ update work of network device ]

Because of update work of network device, the connection from outside of IMR, Tohoku University will be suspended during the following period.
Oct. 19 (Thu.) 17:45 - 20:30, 2023

2023/ 9/27

[ installation of application ]

We have installed following application software.
Large-scale parallel computing server
・ADF 2023.103 (set as default)
Visualization server
・ADF-GUI 2023.103 (set as default)

2023/ 9/11

[ maintenance operation of the supercomputing system ]

Because of the maintenance operation, we will stop the service of the supercomputing system during the following periods.
Sep. 25 (Mon.) 9:00 - Sep. 27 (Wed.) 10:00, 2023

2023/ 8/28

[ maintenance operation of network device ]

Because of the maintenance operation of network device, the communication from outside of Tohoku University will be suspended during the following period.
Sep. 6 (Wed.) 0:00 - 1:00, 2023
* Communication stops for up to 40 minutes within a period.

2023/ 8/ 9

[ stop intel compiler 2021.5.0 ]

Because of a critical security vulnerability has been announced in Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 2022.2.1 and earlier versions, we have stopped the service for compiler of intel/21.5.0 on the Accelerator server.
The module of intel/21.5.0 can be loaded, but compile commands will not be available.

2023/ 8/ 9

[ installation of compiler ]

We have installed following compiler on the Accelerator server.
* Intel oneAPI 2022.3.1
* NVIDIA HPC SDK 22.11 and 23.1

2023/ 7/27

[ supercomputing system in the holidays ]

Aug. 10 (Thu.) 17:00 - Aug. 21 (Mon.) 9:00, 2023
The supercomputing system continues to operate during the above periods.
However, the administrators cannot help you immediately when you have any troubles.

2023/ 7/10

[ maintenance operation of the supercomputing system ]

Because of power outage, renewal our storage system, and the maintenance operation, we will stop the service of the supercomputing system during the following periods.
July 31 (Mon.) 9:00 - Aug. 9 (Wed.) 10:00, 2023

2023/ 6/16

[ maintenance operation of network device ]

Because of the emergency maintenance operation of network device, the connection from outside of Tohoku University will be suspended during the following period.
June 24 (Sat.) 2:30 - 6:00, 2023
* There are two communication outages of about 15 minutes within the above time period.

2023/ 6/15

[ maintenance operation of network device ]

Because of the emergency maintenance operation of network device, access to supercomputing system and Web system will be unavailable during the following period.
June 16 (Fri.) 10:00 - 12:00, 2023

2023/ 6/ 6

[ data migration due to storage system renewal ]

We will renew our storage system starting from August 2023. Therefore, it is necessary to migrate data from the current storage system to the new one. The data under users' home directories will be automatically migrated, but for the data under /work, please manually migrate only the necessary data. No migration is required for the data in /work_da, as it can continue to be used.

2023/ 6/ 2

[ for super computing system users ]

The Center news No.39 (in Japanese) is published.

2023/ 5/31

[ installation of application software ]

We have installed following application software.
Large-scale parallel computing server
・QuantumATK 2022.12-SP1 (set as default)
Visualization server
・QuantumATK NanoLab 2022.12-SP1 (set as default)

2023/ 5/15

[ maintenance operation of the supercomputing system ]

Because of the maintenance operation, we will stop the service of the supercomputing system during the following periods.
May 29 (Mon.) 9:00 - May 31 (Wed.) 10:00, 2023

2023/ 5/15

[ installation of application software ]

We have installed following application software.
Large-scale parallel computing server
・VASP 6.4.1
・QUANTUM ESPRESSO 7.2
Accelerator server
・QUANTUM ESPRESSO 7.2

2023/ 4/27

[ GIMRT May Call for FY2023 proposal is open ]

Global Institute for Materials Research Tohoku (GIMRT) Proposal Call May round (application for FY2023) is open now.
Please see the GIMRT web site for more details.
Deadline: May 31 (Wed.), 2023

2023/ 4/21

[ supercomputing system in the holidays ]

May 2 (Tue.), 17:00 -- May 8 (Mon.), 9:00, 2023
The supercomputing system continues to operate during the above periods.
However, the administrators cannot help you immediately when you have any troubles.

2023/ 3/24

[ installation of application software ]

We have installed following application software.
Large-scale parallel computing server
・VASP 6.4.0
・WIEN2k 23.2
Accelerator server
・VASP 6.4.0
・Materials Studio 2023
Parallel computing and informatics server
・Mathematica 13.2.1
Visualization server
・Mathematica 13.2.1

2023/ 3/13

[ maintenance operation of the supercomputing system ]

Because of the maintenance operation, we will stop the service of the supercomputing system during the following periods.
Mar. 22 (Wed.) 9:00 - Mar. 24 (Fri.) 10:00, 2023

2023/ 2/22

[ installation of application software ]

We have installed following application software on Large-scale parallel computing server.
・WIEN2k 23.1
・ABINIT 9.8.2
・CP2K 2023.1
・ELK 8.7.6
・ALAMODE 1.4.2
・SALMON 2.1.0

2023/ 2/ 3

[ GIMRT February Call for FY2023 proposal is open ]

Global Institute for Materials Research Tohoku (GIMRT) Proposal Call February round (application for FY2023) is open now.
Please see the GIMRT web site for more details.
Deadline: March 9 (Thu.), 2023