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Notice of HOKUSAI Maintenance

Supercomputer HOKUSAI BigWaterfall(HBW) and Data Science Infrastructure(HSS) will be stopped in the schedule below due to the planned power outage in Wako campus. At that time, regular maintenance will also be performed.

Downtime(HOKUSAI BW and SS):
from 5:00 p.m. on October 8 to 3:00 p.m. on October 12
from 5:00 p.m. on October 15 to 3:00 p.m. on October 18

For BW, note that job execution control will be performed before the downtime: Jobs that are expected not to end until the start time of the downtime will be not started. After resuming operation, the unstarted jobs will be started.

For SS, please stop VMs (instances) before the service is stopped. Any VMs that are running when the service is stopped will be forcibly terminated. VMs will not start automatically after the service is restarted, so please start it by yourself.

Announcement of a training session about shared use computers on September 29 [Publication of lecture materials]

[9/25 Post the announcement]

[10/2 Publication of lecture materials]

We will hold a training session on how to use HOKUSAI SailingShip(SS) and Intel AI/compiler.

Date: September 29
Time: From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Place: Video conference (Zoom)
Language: Japanese

Lecture materials

However, we apologize that some documents are not available in English.
We will try to increase the English language documentation as much as possible.

Contact

Information and Communication Infrastructure Section, Information Systems Division, Head Office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity
hpc@riken.jp

Announcement of a user meeting about shared use computers on September 25 [Publication of QA]

[9/16 Post the announcement]

[9/24 Publication of handout]

[10/6 Publication of QA]

The trial operation of the Data Science Infrastructure HOKUSAI SailingShip will end at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 9,
and the regular operation is scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, October 19.
Also, at the same time, usage fees will be introduced in HOKUSAI (SailingShip and BigWaterfall).
We will hold a user meeting on the above.

Date: September 25
Time: From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Place: Video conference(Zoom)
Language: Japanese
Registration is not needed.

Please download from the following handout.
handout_202009.zip

Questions and answers at the meeting can be downloaded here.
User_meeting_shared_use_computerQA2009.pdf

Contents

1. Regular operation of HOKUSAI SailingShip and HOKUSAI usage fee

Contact

Information and Communication Infrastructure Section, Information Systems Division, Head Office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity
hpc@riken.jp