July HPCF Newsletter
Happy end of July everyone,
I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT during the month of July.
Summary
- chip and RRStor System Maintenance Reminder/Completed
- ada Research Volume Migrations Nearly Complete
chip and RRStor System Maintenance Completed
The maintenance period on July 28th for the chip and RRStor clusters went about as smoothly as we could have hoped for! This maintenance focused on optimizing our software stack to better leverage our hardware architectures, alongside applying storage enhancements to RRStor to ensure long-term data reliability.
Please refer to this post for more information regarding the changes: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/161332
ada Research Volume Migrations Nearly Complete
Our transition of research storage volumes from the ada server to the RRStor ceph cluster is almost done! Only a couple of volumes remain, all slated to finish within the next couple of weeks.
We appreciate everyone's cooperation and quick turnaround in helping us coordinate these migrations in a short timeframe.
Publications
If you have any publications, presentations, theses, or other works that made use of the campus cluster, please submit an RT Ticket with bibliographic information so that we can accurately reflect this work in our records and on the HPCF Website.
Need Help?
As always, please communicate any issues/questions to the Research Computing RT Queue (hpcf.umbc.edu > User Support > Request Help).
Gregory Ballantine
HPC System Administrator
Posted: July 31, 2026, 3:16 PM