Announcements

We are working with EERE on a new effort to engage more students in computing and to amplify how computing is used for EERE work. These goals begin with a Kestrel-focused campaign in January, where undergraduate and graduate students from any U.S. college or university can apply for time on Kestrel for their EERE mission-related research project. Students have until Feb. 12, 2024, to apply, and EERE decisions on allocations will be made by early March. Student time on Kestrel will be granted for the remainder of FY 2024.

Stay tuned for upcoming trainings and updates to documentation about the shared partition, and reach out to us if you need any help with getting shared jobs set up.

Welcome to Kestrel! We hope you have already been getting up-and-running on our newest system. This email is meant to provide an extra round-up of the resources that are available to you to help with transitioning to and working on Kestrel.

For more information on using the Kestrel DAV nodes, please see the VirtualGL and FastX page.

Reminder: projects may be awarded AUs on more than one system. Please check the Lex web interface at https://hpcprojects.nrel.gov/ or your allocation's award letter for the system(s) and AUs awarded to your allocation. Please note: not all projects have an Eagle allocation. Unless you were specifically awarded AUs on Eagle, you will not be able to run jobs there. You do not have to be a lead or P.I. to view AUs. If you are a project user, you can also see AUs by logging into Lex (hpcprojects.nrel.gov).

In a short video, hear why Kestrel’s impressive speed really matters, according to Surendra Sunkari, NREL HPC engineer and Kestrel technical lead.

Check in often for updates from the team, videos, photos, and more in the Countdown to Kestrel blog!

Advanced Computing Operations and Computational Sciences Applications worked together to provide updated HPC documentation in Github. With Kestrel availability coming soon, the team worked together to remove more in-depth technical documentation from hpc.nrel.gov and moved it to Github Documentation.

Many of you have requested to be added or removed from the Team. Please follow the instructions below:

Check in often for updates from the team, videos, photos, and more in the Countdown to Kestrel blog!

This was a very exciting day for Kestrel! U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the NREL campus to help showcase and celebrate the laboratory's new campus expansion projects. Among many exciting activities of the day, the secretary joined NREL staff and representatives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise to sign the supercomputer!