Unity News

Hi Unity Users! Keep reading for some helpful documentation updates and announcements about Unity. UPDATED DOCS ✏️ Software Management was updated to include a section on how to build software from scratch Troubleshooting was updated to include additional information on how to solve SSH connection errors ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 ⚙️ New hardware alert! Three L40S nodes and one A16 node added to Unity Unity has been upgraded to include three new nodes with 12 Nvidia L40S GPUs, four on each node. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! We hope you had a wonderful holiday and a happy new year! The Unity Digest is back with some updated documentation and key announcements. UPDATED DOCS ✏️ Updated our documentation on conda environments to reflect the change in module name ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 💡 Unity profile is now available for Nextflow nf-core pipelines An institutional Unity profile is now available for Nextflow nf-core pipelines (docs, config)! To use it, add the -profile unity option to any nf-core pipeline. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest features new documentation and useful announcements. NEW DOCS 🎉 Git Guide. An introductory quick guide to version control and Git. “Get Help” section: Frequently Asked Questions. Go here to find answers to general, commonly asked questions about Unity. Troubleshooting (new!). Go here to find solutions to common errors and issues encountered by Unity users. ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 📸 Snapshots for /project In addition to /work and /home, users can now recover files for /projects See more info about snapshots. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest features both new documentation and exciting announcements. NEW DOCS 🎉 New Get Started section, which includes: Common terms (new!) HPC Resources (updated) Quick Start Guide Theory of HPC Overview of threads, cores, and sockets in Slurm for HPC workflows (new!) ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 🏆 Harmony Awarded Through NSF Grant! The Unity team received an NSF grant to add a new system to the Unity Research Computing Platform, called Harmony. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest features both new documentation and key announcements. NEW Docs 🎉 Quick Start – a quick start guide to our documentation. Helper Scripts – includes commands to help you schedule jobs in Slurm more effectively. UPDATED ✏️ General updates to align our documentation with the current cluster and module versions Updated all documentation to reflect the long partition removal and long QOS addition ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 ✅ Completed OS upgrade Unity’s operating system (OS) upgrade has been completed. Read More...

Unity’s operating system (OS) upgrade is NOW COMPLETE! On October 22, 2024, we upgraded all Unity servers from Ubuntu 20.04 to the new LTS (long term support) version, 24.04. This is a critical update to the cluster to ensure continued security and stability. For real-time discussion about changes regarding the OS release, join the #os-upgrade-24-04 channel in our Unity User Community Slack. For more information on joining the Slack, see here. Read More...