Hoffman2 Cluster Users Town Hall Meeting

Hoffman2 is UCLA's high-performance computer cluster. Event Description: The IDRE Research Technology Group is sponsoring a Hoffman2 Users Town Hall Meeting. The goal of this meeting is to give you an overview of cluster operations, what services are offered and associated costs, some tips on the using the cluster more effectively, but most importantly we want to hear from you. What are we doing right and what can we improve on? Our tentative agenda is as follows: 1.Introduction and state of the Hoffman2 Cluster 2.General Campus Users versus Contributors, what’s the difference? 3.Storage and node service rates. What are they and what do they cover? 4.Optimizing between HPC storage and our Cloud Archival Storage Service. 5.The Queuing system, how it works and how you can make better use of it. 6.TBD topics* 7.Q&A and Discussion – Let us hear from you. *If you have other topics you would like to have covered, please email me at labate@idre.ucla.edu The details: Thursday, November 6th fro…