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CDO Now Available Across taki

Operations geared toward analysis of geophysical data

Hi All, This is just an update regarding a new set of software packages now available on the taki cluster environment, CDO.  From the requestor and main CDO site...

Posted: August 17, 2021, 1:08 PM

13 Tips to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready

Checklist to optimize your course before the semester starts

Prepare your Blackboard course shell for the new semester with our updated baker’s dozen checklist. 1. Review new tools & features in Blackboard. Our Blackboard site receives updates and...

Posted: August 17, 2021, 12:02 PM

Intel Adopts LLVM

Intel Compilers move to use LLVM open source infrastructure

I just saw this update regarding the Intel compilers, thought I would share it with our HPC community. This will not affect the compilers we currently have on Taki. From the article:...

Posted: August 12, 2021, 2:07 PM

Quarterly patching downtimes - 8/7 & 8/13

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Saturday, August 7th and Friday, August 13th.  While many of the...

Posted: August 4, 2021, 10:23 AM

taki Downtime Completed

To all taki users, Our work bringing the taki cluster environment up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the cluster environment. Please let us know if you have any questions...

Posted: August 3, 2021, 9:47 PM