Center Announcements
  – Open Cognitive Environment (Open CE) 1.1.3 Now Available

Meetings & Workshops
  – March OLCF User Conference Call
  – 2021 GPU Hackathons

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
  – HPSS (Apr 13)
  – Summit, Andes, DTNs, and Alpine (Apr 20)

Center Announcements

Open Cognitive Environment (Open CE) 1.1.3 Now Available
The Open Cognitive Environment (Open CE) version 1.1.3 is now available on Summit via the “open-ce” modulefile. The default version, “open-ce/1.1.3-py38-0”, is built for Python 3.8; additional modulefiles (open-ce/1.1.3-py36-0 and open-ce/1.1.3-py37-0) are available for Python versions 3.6 and 3.7.

Open CE provides newer versions of ML/DL packages including TensorFlow and PyTorch. For more information on specific versions of individual packages, please see https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/software/software-news.html. To learn more about Open CE at OLCF, please see https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/software/analytics/ibm-wml-ce.html.

Meetings & Workshops

March OLCF User Conference Call
Thanks for joining us for the March OLCF User Conference Call, which included an overview of the NVIDIA RAPIDS ecosystem. The call video will be posted to the OLCF Training Channel on Vimeo soon, and when it is a link will be added to the event page at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/userconcall-mar2021/.

2021 GPU Hackathons
The 2021 NVIDIA GPU Hackathon series is now open. Events that will be supported by the OLCF (computing resources, mentors, etc.) are marked with the OLCF logo at https://www.gpuhackathons.org/events. The next two OLCF-supported (virtual) hackathons will be:

  – NERSC on July 19, 26-28 (deadline to apply is May 19)
  – OLCF on October 18, 25-27 (deadline to apply is August 18)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

  • HPSS will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 4:00 PM on Tuesday, April 13.
  • Summit, Andes, the Data Transfer Nodes, and the Alpine filesystem will be unavailable from 8:00 AM until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 20.