Blog – FAS Research Computing https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu .HARVARD UNIVERSITY | FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:19:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/small_twitter-200x200.png Blog – FAS Research Computing https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu 32 32 59814611 Updated TRES Weighting Scheme https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/updated-tres-weighting-scheme/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:43:34 +0000 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/?p=26029 by Paul Edmon July 23, 2026 Abstract With the advent of Nvidia deprioritizing 64-bit floating point performance, another metric is needed to fairly weight GPU performance for the sake of fairshare accounting. This blog post describes the rationale behind the new method which is to take the theoretical peak performance in whatever category is the largest and then normalize it…

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]]> 26029 RSpace Support Group Pilot Project Report https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/rspace-report/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:02:33 +0000 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/?p=26013 By Sarah Marchese - FASRC Research Data Manager - July 8, 2026 The RSpace Support Group pilot project was launched in July 2025 to assess awareness, use, and support of RSpace, an FAS-supported electronic lab notebook (ELN) available to Harvard researchers. Representatives from Harvard Library, University Research Computing (URC), the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), and FAS…

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]]> 26013 2026 MGHPCC power downtime June 15-18, 2026 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/2026-mghpcc-power-down/ Wed, 06 May 2026 18:11:15 +0000 https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/?p=25968 The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled by the facility. This year's power downtime will take place June  15th - 18th, 2026.  There will be no June monthly maintenance as a result. Since the facility will be powered down for two days this year, we will not be performing the usual maintenance tasks.  That…

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