[intrepid-notify] ALCF Weekly Updates - March 17, 2011

[ALCF User Services]

***Wiki Scheduling Page Enhanced***
The wiki page on scheduling now has graphs and a table that detail available queues and queue policies. New graphics also show what fraction of the machine is available to the different queues; for instance, that prod-short has access to 15 more racks than prod-long. View the enhanced page at https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/index.php/Job_Scheduling_Policy

***Join the Monthly User Call March 31***
The ALCF monthly user call, held the last Thursday of each month (10 a.m. CDT, 15:00 UTC), is now open to all users on all projects. Our experts are available during the call to answer your questions and to provide guidance. The next call is March 31. Please watch for an agenda and dial-in information in next week's email. 

***Intrepid Storage Changes Begin Monday***
The first of several storage changes on Intrepid will begin Monday when fs1 (PVFS) will be mounted read-only and will remain that way until the file system reorganization on April 4. For more information, visit https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/index.php/File_Systems.

***Regularly Scheduled Maintenance Monday***
Routine maintenance is scheduled to being at 9 a.m. CDT (14:00 UTC) Monday, March 21. Please watch the "notify" list for projected and actual release times. 

***Acknowledging ALCF in Publications***
Please use the following statement to acknowledge the ALCF in all publications referring to work using our resources: "This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357." Also, please forward the title, authors, publication, source, publisher and month/year of publications to support at alcf.anl.gov. 

***Important Dates***
March 21 - Regularly Scheduled Maintenance
March 21 - INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar: http://workshops.alcf.anl.gov/incitepww11/
March 31 - User Call (10 a.m. CDT, 15:00 UTC) dial-in info in next week's email
April 1 - Gordon Bell abstracts due: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=awards.html
April 1 - SC11 paper abstracts due: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=dates.html
April 8 - SC11 workshops/tutorials/panel proposals due: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=dates.html
April 13 - INCITE proposal submission period begins: http://www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/









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