[{"id":547,"date":"2026-08-31T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=547"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:23:52","slug":"submit-your-poster-for-clemson-hpc-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/08\/31\/submit-your-poster-for-clemson-hpc-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit Your Poster for Clemson HPC Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clemson HPC Day 2026 is coming up on Friday, September 18, 2026, at the Hendrix Student Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We invite faculty, students, researchers, and staff to submit a poster and share the work they are doing with high performance computing. The poster session is an opportunity to showcase research, connect with colleagues across campus, and engage with the Clemson HPC community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submit a poster proposal through the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe6AF2PAMXuS4AaYCf7i-HgnP8qSnJG50I42eUgO7IraO2toA\/viewform\">Clemson HPC Day 2026 Call for Posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration is also open. Attend HPC Day for presentations and panel sessions, hands-on workshops, faculty lightning talks, the poster session, and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/pUHmrAdTZMCm1UiD7\">Register for Clemson HPC Day 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.edu\/ccit\/research\/learn\/hpc-day.html\">HPC Day 2026 event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Call for Posters for Clemson HPC Day 2026 is now open. Share your research at the September 18 event and register to join us for a day of HPC presentations, workshops, and networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4241,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[116657],"coauthors":[116648],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-active-announcement-info"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/08\/HPC-Day-26-CDN-150x150.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":529,"date":"2026-08-31T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=529"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:37:17","slug":"palmetto-2-slurm-controller-outage-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/08\/31\/palmetto-2-slurm-controller-outage-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmetto 2 Slurm Controller Outage (Resolved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are currently investigating an outage of our Slurm controller on the Palmetto 2 cluster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Job submission, Open OnDemand, and other tools that integrate with Slurm are impacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will provide an update as soon as a fix is in place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"callout success wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts--has-icon wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts\">\n            <span class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"las la-check\"><\/i><\/span>\n        <div class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__content\">\n        \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update: 2026-08-31 8:54AM<\/strong><br>The Slurm outage on Palmetto 2 has been resolved. Job submission, Open OnDemand, and other systems are back online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your job completed during the outage window, it may have been marked as failed, but any results written to storage would still be complete. In addition, please check any running multi-step jobs, as they may have failed.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently investigating an outage of our Slurm controller on the Palmetto 2 cluster. Job submission, Open OnDemand, and other tools that integrate with Slurm are impacted. 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The series is designed to help life sciences researchers understand and apply Clemson&#8217;s high-performance computing resources to genomics research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HPC for Genomics Life Scientists: Foundations<\/strong><br>This two-part workshop introduces the foundations of HPC for genomics research and how research computing resources can support common genomics workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Part 1<\/strong>: Monday, August 31<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Part 2<\/strong>: Wednesday, September 9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time<\/strong>: 1:00\u20134:30 PM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: LSB 142<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HPC for Genomics Life Scientists: Practical Demonstrations<\/strong><br>This three-part workshop builds on those foundations with practical examples demonstrating how HPC resources can be applied to genomics data and analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Part 1<\/strong>: Monday, October 5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Part 2<\/strong>: Tuesday, October 6<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Part 3<\/strong>: Wednesday, October 7<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time<\/strong>: 1:00\u20134:30 PM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: LSB 142<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"callout primary wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts--has-icon wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts\">\n            <span class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"las la-info-circle\"><\/i><\/span>\n        <div class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__content\">\n        \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Advance registration is required for all workshop sessions.<\/strong> <br>Registration links are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/training\/schedule\/\">schedule page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope to see you at a workshop this semester!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Computing and Data (RCD) is excited to announce our Fall 2026 workshop schedule. You can view the full schedule and register for upcoming sessions here: More workshops will be posted soon! 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As of now, GLM 5.1 (our previous LTS model) is marked as deprecated, and we will retire it in early September.  We&#8217;re currently marking GLM 5.2 as our active model, but will likely replace it with GLM 5.3 when the weights are released (depending on the final license). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve also deployed Qwen 3.8 27b, a surprisingly capable smaller model with image support.  If there is a particular model that would be useful to your research, please <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/ticket\/general\/\" class=\"\">let us know<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A feature we have just added is the concept of model aliases. These aliases can represent a particular capability or use-case, and will track the current best model for the task. Currently, we have the following aliases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code><strong>tiger<\/strong><\/code>: This alias points to the most powerful model we are currently hosting, useful in coding agents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code><strong>cub<\/strong><\/code>: This model alias points to a smaller agentic capable model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope this alias system will alleviate some of the friction caused by the model changes that are inevitable with limited hardware. If there are other use cases you would like to track with an alias, please let us know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Batch API<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve also introduced a Batch API support over this summer.  It is designed to be compatible with the OpenAP Batch API and you can either use the APIs directly (e.g. through OpenAI python SDK as we show in the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/llm\/usage\/batch\/#quick-start\">Quick Start<\/a>) or through the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/llm\/usage\/batch\/#batch-web-ui\">Batch Web UI<\/a>. Using the Batch API provides the following benefits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Automatic retries<\/strong>: transient errors (rate limits, server errors) are retried with exponential backoff so you do not have to build retry logic <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Queued when unavailable<\/strong>: if a model is temporarily down, your requests are safely queued and processed when the model comes back online <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adaptive concurrency<\/strong>: the service automatically adjusts concurrency based on backend engine capacity to maintain throughput<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details, please read our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/llm\/usage\/batch\/#batch-web-ui\">documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OpenAI Model Access<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of our enterprise agreement with OpenAI, we have  credits available for API access to OpenAI models. We now make a portion of these credits available to projects using the RCD LLM Service. Each allocation is given a default allocation of credits, and then can also consume credits from a shared pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most OpenAI models are available. To see the list, go to our <a href=\"https:\/\/llm.rcd.clemson.edu\/ui\/models?external=true\">models page<\/a>, and make sure external models are not hidden.  The OpenAI models should appear at the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Requests can be made to the same endpoint as the open weight models, and you can use the RCD LLM Service Batch API to submit requests to OpenAI models. Since the batching happens at our RCD LLM Service proxy level, you do not directly get the OpenAI batch pricing by submitting to our Batch API, however you can receive the equivalent 50% discount by submitting using the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.openai.com\/api\/docs\/guides\/flex-processing?api-mode=chat\"><code>flex<\/code> service tier<\/a> in each of your batch requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are currently restrictions on certain API features (e.g. web_search, image_generation).  If these pose significant limitations to your research, please <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/ticket\/general\/\" class=\"\">let us know<\/a>. We may be able to lift the restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details, please read our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/llm\/usage\/openai_api\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/llm\/usage\/openai_api\/\">documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scheduler Improvements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have also been updates to the scheduler, which should keep the models feeling more performant even has load increases by dynamically adjusting the number of requests allowed to the backend based on real time backend metrics.  The scheduler still uses a fair-share policy, deciding which requests to send to the backend when it is saturated based on recent usage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve also introduce a &#8220;<strong>Nice<\/strong>&#8221; configuration option when you create API keys.  You can now configure an API key to have a high &#8220;Nice&#8221; value, which voluntarily deprioritizes and requests using the key.  This is useful so that you can use a large Nice value on your batch requests and default low Nice value on your interactive (e.g. coding harness) requests, which would allow your interactive use to have priority over batch requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a few updates for our LLM Service. Model Updates As we prepare for the Fall semester, we&#8217;re looking at changes to our largest models. As of now, GLM 5.1 (our previous LTS model) is marked as deprecated, and we will retire it in early September. 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All RCD services are now available.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"callout warning wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts--has-icon wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts\">\n            <span class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"las la-exclamation-triangle\"><\/i><\/span>\n        <div class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__content\">\n        \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Important: <strong>$TMPDIR <\/strong>behavior has changed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of this maintenance, we changed how local temporary storage is exposed to jobs on Palmetto. If your job scripts explicitly use&nbsp;<code>\/local_scratch\/slurm.$SLURM_JOBID<\/code>,&nbsp;<strong>you should update them to use&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><code>$TMPDIR<\/code><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the maintenance window, the team completed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Linux kernel updates<\/strong>\u00a0to patch recently identified security vulnerabilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Minor NVIDIA driver updates<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Minor InfiniBand driver updates<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Upgrades to the Indigo Data Lake<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Updates to Open OnDemand<\/strong>, including the new Palmetto Desktop experience described below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These updates help maintain the security, reliability, and stability of Clemson\u2019s research computing infrastructure as we prepare for the Fall semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We appreciate your patience while our team completed this work. If you experience any issues following maintenance, please <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/category\/submit-a-ticket\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/category\/submit-a-ticket\/\">submit a support ticket<\/a> so the RCD team can assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Changes to&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><code>$TMPDIR<\/code><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The behavior of&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>&nbsp;for jobs running on Palmetto has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously,&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>&nbsp;pointed to a job-specific directory under&nbsp;<code>\/local_scratch<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>\/local_scratch\/slurm.$SLURM_JOBID<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following this maintenance, each user receives a namespaced&nbsp;<code>\/tmp<\/code>&nbsp;directory on the compute node, and&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>&nbsp;now points to that location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This change does&nbsp;<strong>not<\/strong>&nbsp;change the underlying storage characteristics of&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>. The directory continues to use the local storage on the compute node and is intended for temporary files created during a job. Its contents are still automatically cleaned up after the job ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most applications and scripts that use the&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>&nbsp;environment variable should continue to work without modification. However, scripts that explicitly reference&nbsp;<code>\/local_scratch\/slurm.$SLURM_JOBID<\/code>&nbsp;should be updated to use&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>&nbsp;instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about local scratch storage and&nbsp;<code>$TMPDIR<\/code>, see the&nbsp;\u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/palmetto\/storage\/spaces\/scratch\/#local-scratch-tmpdir\">Palmetto storage documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New Palmetto Desktop<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of this maintenance, RCD updated Open OnDemand with a new&nbsp;<strong>Palmetto Desktop<\/strong>&nbsp;experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong>New Palmetto Desktop<\/strong>&nbsp;provides an updated way to launch and use a graphical desktop environment on Palmetto through Open OnDemand. Users can access the new desktop from the Open OnDemand interface alongside other interactive applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We encourage users who work with graphical applications or prefer a desktop environment on Palmetto to try the New Palmetto Desktop and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/ticket\/openod\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/ticket\/openod\/\">share any feedback or issues<\/a> with the RCD team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer 2026 maintenance for Palmetto 2 and Indigo is complete, and all RCD services are available. Users are encouraged to review important changes made during maintenance before submitting new jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,116638],"tags":[],"coauthors":[116647],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-maintenance"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":283,"date":"2026-07-23T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=283"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:21:22","slug":"clemson-university-at-pearc26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/07\/23\/clemson-university-at-pearc26\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson University at PEARC&#8217;26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/07\/pearc26-logo-1024x436.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/07\/pearc26-logo-1024x436.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/07\/pearc26-logo-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/07\/pearc26-logo-768x327.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/07\/pearc26-logo-1536x654.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/files\/2026\/07\/pearc26-logo.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the week of July 26th, several members of Clemson&#8217;s Research Computing and Data (RCD) team will be attending the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pearc.acm.org\/pearc26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) 2026 conference<\/a><\/strong> in Minneapolis, MN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While our team is away, please note that response times for <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">user support<\/a> inquiries may be delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, our team has <strong>three accepted publications<\/strong> that we will be presenting at the conference. Below are the details of each and links to helpful resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">BioCodex<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>HPC-Native Agentic Genomics Workflows via MCP RunSpecs and Asynchronous Slurm Execution<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Authors:<\/strong> Carl Ehrett, Alex Feltus, Douglas Dawson, Zachary Gerstner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presentation: <\/strong><br>Wednesday, July 29th, 2026<br>11:45 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<br>Auditorium Room 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/6e5e127c-b1e6-4ee3-b146-6f118935112b\/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?session=5d61e244-e90a-47a9-828e-d4aab160fbf6&amp;shareLink=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agenda<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3785462.3815873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paper<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slides (available after presentation)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Extending HPC GPUs to Windows-Based GIS Users via Juice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>A Model for Broadening Access to Campus Supercomputing<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Authors: <\/strong>Christian Herman, Gregory Post, Patricia Carbajales-Dale, James Burton, Scott Groel, Sorya Prak and Ryan Statkiewicz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presentation: <\/strong><br>Wednesday, July 29th, 2026<br>12:00 PM \u2013 12:15 PM<br>Rooms 101A &amp; 101B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/6e5e127c-b1e6-4ee3-b146-6f118935112b\/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?session=717f8e00-af34-4e8a-8981-b97e3c6694b4&amp;shareLink=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agenda<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3785462.3815853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paper<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slides (available after presentation)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Building the Palmetto API<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Adding granular permissions and caching to the Slurm REST API without sacrificing compatibility<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Authors: <\/strong>Ben Godfrey and Douglas Dawson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presentation: <\/strong><br>Wednesday, July 29th, 2026<br>3:45 PM \u2013 4:15 PM<br>Auditorium Room 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/6e5e127c-b1e6-4ee3-b146-6f118935112b\/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?session=78479164-5814-487e-9886-899820ee21c4&amp;shareLink=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agenda<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3785462.3815813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paper<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slides (available after presentation)<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/clemsonrcd\/palmetto-api\">Code (available at presentation)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We look forward to participating at the conference and hope to see you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clemson&#8217;s RCD team will present 3 publications at the PEARC&#8217;26 conference from July 26-30.<\/p>\n<p>Response times for user support inquiries may be delayed during that week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,116663],"tags":[],"coauthors":[116643],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-events"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":372,"date":"2026-07-13T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=372"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:27:04","slug":"summer-2026-palmetto-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/07\/13\/summer-2026-palmetto-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2026 Palmetto Maintenance Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RCD team has scheduled its annual summer maintenance for&nbsp;<strong>Palmetto 2<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Indigo<\/strong>&nbsp;before the start of the Fall semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maintenance will begin on&nbsp;<strong>Friday, August 7, 2026, at 9:00 AM<\/strong>. During the maintenance window,&nbsp;<strong>all RCD services will be unavailable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The planned maintenance includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Minor operating system upgrades<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upgrades to the Indigo Data Lake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These updates are necessary to maintain the security, reliability, and stability of the cluster for the Fall semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are&nbsp;<strong>no plans to purge scratch storage<\/strong>&nbsp;during this maintenance. However, users should remember that scratch storage is&nbsp;<strong>not backed up<\/strong>. Any important data should be stored in home or project storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The summer maintenance is scheduled to conclude on&nbsp;<strong>Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at 9:00 AM<\/strong>. If maintenance is completed ahead of schedule, RCD will notify users by email as services become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCD team has scheduled maintenance on Palmetto 2 and Indigo from Friday, August 7, 2026 at 9:00AM to Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 9:00AM.<\/p>\n<p>During the maintenance, all RCD services will be unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,116638],"tags":[],"coauthors":[116647],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-maintenance"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":249,"date":"2026-06-29T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:01:36","slug":"reduced-cluster-capacity-due-to-datacenter-cooling-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/06\/29\/reduced-cluster-capacity-due-to-datacenter-cooling-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced Cluster Capacity Due to Datacenter Cooling Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are currently experiencing a chiller outage at Clemson&#8217;s datacenter. To help reduce the cooling load and maintain system stability, we have temporarily limited the number of jobs that can run concurrently on the cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, <strong>queue wait times will be longer than usual<\/strong> until the issue is resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work through this situation. We will provide updates here as they become available.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"callout success wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts--has-icon wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts\">\n            <span class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"las la-check\"><\/i><\/span>\n        <div class=\"wp-block-harp-blocks-callouts__content\">\n        \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update: 2026-06-29 9:45PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The datacenter cooling issue has been resolved. The running job limit has been set back to normal and queue times will start to improve.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently experiencing a chiller outage at Clemson&#8217;s datacenter. To help reduce the cooling load and maintain system stability, we have temporarily limited the number of jobs that can run concurrently on the cluster. As a result, queue wait times will be longer than usual until the issue is resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[116647],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":244,"date":"2026-06-15T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=244"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:34:06","slug":"scratch-storage-quota-increases-on-palmetto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/06\/15\/scratch-storage-quota-increases-on-palmetto-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch Storage Quota Increases on Palmetto 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Research Computing and Data (RCD) team is pleased to announce a significant increase in the scratch storage quota on Palmetto 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Effective immediately, the default scratch storage allocation has been increased from&nbsp;<strong>5 TiB and 5 million files<\/strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>10 TiB and 10 million files per user<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Purge Policy Remains in Effect<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quota increase does not change Palmetto 2\u2019s existing scratch space purge policy. The&nbsp;<code>\/scratch<\/code>&nbsp;filesystem remains a temporary workspace intended for active research and computation, and files that meet the purge criteria remain subject to removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users are responsible for understanding and complying with the scratch purge policy. Attempts to circumvent the policy\u2014including actions intended solely to prevent files from being identified as inactive or eligible for purge\u2014are prohibited. RCD reserves the right to remove data associated with such activity without prior notice in order to maintain the health, performance, and fairness of the shared filesystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers should ensure that important data is stored in appropriate long-term storage locations and should not rely on&nbsp;<code>\/scratch<\/code>&nbsp;for archival or permanent storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why the Change?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As research workflows continue to grow in scale and complexity, many users are working with increasingly large datasets, simulation outputs, machine learning training data, and high-throughput analysis pipelines. Based on user feedback and observed usage patterns, RCD has expanded scratch storage capacity to better support these evolving computational needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The updated limits provide:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2\u00d7 more scratch storage capacity<\/strong>&nbsp;(10 TiB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2\u00d7 higher file count allowance<\/strong>&nbsp;(10 million files)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greater flexibility for data-intensive workflows<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduced need for users to actively manage scratch space during large projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Scratch Storage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<code>\/scratch<\/code>&nbsp;filesystem on Palmetto 2 is designed for temporary, high-performance storage during active computational work. Users should continue to treat scratch space as temporary storage and maintain copies of important data in appropriate long-term storage locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the per-user quota has been increased, users should be aware that scratch storage is a shared resource with finite capacity. The new quota represents the maximum amount of storage and number of files a user may consume, but it does&nbsp;<strong>not<\/strong>&nbsp;guarantee that every user can simultaneously utilize their full allocation. Responsible use of scratch space helps ensure that the filesystem remains performant and available for the entire Palmetto community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users can monitor their current scratch usage and quota limits at any time using the\u00a0<code>checkquota<\/code>\u00a0command. Additional information about scratch storage, quotas, and purge policies is available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/palmetto\/storage\/spaces\/scratch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/palmetto\/storage\/spaces\/scratch\/\">Palmetto documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scratch storage is intended for active jobs and working datasets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical research data should be backed up elsewhere.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Users are encouraged to periodically remove unneeded files and directories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective immediately, the default scratch storage allocation has been increased from\u00a05 TiB and 5 million files\u00a0to\u00a010 TiB and 10 million files per user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[116647],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":241,"date":"2026-06-02T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:07:34","slug":"rcde-announces-summer-2026-workshop-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/rcd\/2026\/06\/02\/rcde-announces-summer-2026-workshop-series\/","title":{"rendered":"RCDE Announces Summer 2026 Workshop Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Research Computing and Data (RCD) team is excited to announce our Summer 2026 workshop series, available free of charge to all Clemson University students, faculty, and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our series will cover various high-performance computing, machine learning, and software development topics. Here\u2019s a summary of what we\u2019ll cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduction to Linux<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Research Computing on Palmetto<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Nextflow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI Agent Skills and GPTs for Research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI Code Assistants for HPC on Palmetto<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Computing on Kubernetes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inside the Agent: Demystifying LLM Agents in Practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can learn more about the details of each workshop, the\u00a0schedule, and registration links on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.rcd.clemson.edu\/training\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upcoming live training sessions<\/a>\u00a0page of our documentation site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to seeing you this summer and helping you make the most of Clemson\u2019s research computing resources!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Computing and Data (RCD) team is excited to announce our Summer 2026 workshop series, available free of charge to all Clemson University students, faculty, and staff. 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