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Hi Unity Users! After this week, the digest will transition to a bi-weekly schedule, so you’ll receive these updates every two weeks instead of every week. This week’s edition features one new piece of documentation and two important announcements! New documentation 🎉 Renv documentation. Provides an overview of virtual environments in R, including how to create and activate an environment, install and update packages, save and move an environment, use Python with renv, and more. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s Weekly Digest offers a sneak peek at some exciting documentation that’s coming your way soon! Upcoming documentation additions 👀 Renv documentation. Will provide an overview of virtual environments in R, including how to create and activate an environment, install and update packages, save and move an environment, use Python with renv, and more. R parallelization documentation. A secondary page to R docs that will provide an overview on how to run R in parallel. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s edition of the Weekly Digest features new documentation, updated documentation, and an exciting announcement. New documentation 🎉 Venv - Virtual environments in Python. This is an overview of virtual environments in Python, including how to create, activate, move, and deactivate an environment, install packages, and submit a slurm job with venv. Updated documentation ✏️ SSH Connection documentation was updated to recommend configuring an SSH agent so that you don’t need to enter a password every time you use SSH keys for SSH connections. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week calls for a light digest, since most of the Unity Team have been at PEARC’24! Useful updates to documentation Introduction to batch jobs was updated to include a section on checking job progress and a link to Monitor a batch job, a new documentation addition. Introduction to Slurm: The job scheduler was updated to include links to our recently added Slurm cheat sheet. Requesting an account was updated to clarify “PIs” as being faculty or select staff members who lead research groups. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! Welcome to the first edition of our Weekly Digest. This update will provide you all with an overview of the latest documentation, updates to existing documentation, cluster changes, and any other important announcements from your sysadmins. You can expect to receive these updates weekly. Let’s dive in! New documentation Slurm cheat sheet How to contribute to the Unity User documentation. Only for those that have access to the behind-the-scenes of our website and are beginning to actively contribute to the Unity User Documentation. Read More...

We are pleased to announce Unity is now open for use again following our May 20 through 24, 2024 maintenance. Thank you for your patience as we performed necessary upgrades and maintenance to keep Unity running smoothly. As of today (Friday, May 24, 2024), Unity /project directories hosted on the Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE) remain offline. Unfortunately, NESE maintenance will not conclude until Wednesday, May 29th. Until the NESE team gives the go-ahead to reconnect, /project directories will not be accessible from Unity. Read More...

We are approaching our annual maintenance period, which coincides with the MGHPCC’s data center maintenance shutdown. Unity, including login access and storage, will be offline from Monday, May 20th at 9 am Eastern through Friday, May 24th for necessary maintenance and upgrades. During this time, you will not be able to log in to Unity, including Unity-connected storage. We appreciate your patience during this disruption and will work to restore Unity access as quickly as possible following network restoration Friday afternoon. Read More...

Description Position title: CDS-RCD Research Assistant (RA) The Center for Data Science (CDS) in partnership with Research Computing and Data (RCD) at UMass Amherst is looking for up to three PhD student research assistants (RAs) for 10 - 20 hours per week during Spring 2024. RAs will support a broad range of researchers using the Unity HPC platform. As a facilitation RA, you have the opportunity to learn about high performance computing, computational science, and research computing facilitation under the guidance of experienced research computing facilitators. Read More...

Happy holidays, Unity Community! The Unity facilitation and systems administration teams will have reduced services and help hours from Monday, December 18, 2023, until Tuesday, January 2, 2024. During this time, please allow additional time for responses on help tickets and the Unity User Community Slack. In addition, we will not be holding Zoom office hours until the UMass Amherst Spring semester begins on February 1, 2024. The first session of Zoom office hours in 2024 is Tuesday, February 6, 2024, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm EST. Read More...