PSC’s Bridges-2 Joins Neocortex Among Elite Artificial Intelligence Computers Allocated through National NAIRR Pilot Project

PSC’s Bridges-2 Joins Neocortex Among Elite Artificial Intelligence Computers Allocated through National NAIRR Pilot Project

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 supercomputer is now available to scientists through the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project, joining the center’s Neocortex AI system in the second-round call for research proposals by a National...

Max walltime increase on RM partitions

The maximum walltime that you can request in the RM, RM-shared and RM-512 partitions has been increased from 48 to 72 hours. The default walltime remains at 30 minutes. This change was made in response to feedback received from our recent user survey. PSC policies are...

Globus and GROMACS changes

Following this week’s maintenance period on Bridges-2, the following changes have been made. Globus For Globus/GridFTP transfers to/from Bridges-2, please use the new endpoint labelled “PSC Bridges-2 Globus Connect Server 5 Endpoint”. The new Globus...

Best practices for conda

New documentation on best practices when using conda to create custom environments has been added to the Bridges-2 User Guide. Read the best practices documentation here. If you have any questions, please email help@psc.edu.

SLURM environment change coming June 9

During the June 8-9 downtime, we will correct settings on Bridges-2 so that no variables defined in a login session will be inherited by SLURM jobs. This includes both batch and interactive jobs. Currently, environment variables defined in the login shell, including...

Inode quota implemented on Bridges-2

Due to the current usage patterns on Bridges-2’s Ocean filesystem, an inode allocation has been established. It will be enforced in addition to the storage quota for your grant. The inode allocation is proportional to the size of your storage quota, and is set...