November 2024 Maintenance Details

Hello Hyak Community,

Our November maintenance is complete. Thank you for your patience while we make package updates to node images, ensuring the security and behavior you expect from Hyak klone.

The next maintenance will be Tuesday December 10, 2024.

Noteable Updates

• We updated the GPU drivers to version 565.57.01 to patch security vulnerabilities CVE-2024-0117 through CVE-2024-0121 and CVE-2024-0126.
• We migrated user Home directories to Solid State Drives (SSDs). Users may notice increased speed of software stored in Home directories.

Upcoming Training

Hyak: Scheduling jobs with Slurm workshop is on Thursday, November 14th, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the WRF Data Science Studio (UW Physics/Astronomy Tower, 6th Floor; 3910 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195), and will cover Hyak’s job scheduler Slurm, interactive jobs, batch jobs, and array jobs. REGISTER HERE!

Hyak: Introduction to Deep Learning workshop is on Tuesday, December 3rd, from 10 to 11:50 a.m. in CSE2 (Gates Center) Room 371. Participants will start with a computer vision example, training a model on a sample dataset, and then learn how to execute the training process on Hyak. REGISTER HERE!

Office Hours

Zoom office hours will be held on Wednesdays at 2pm. Attendees need only register once and can attend any of the occurrences with the Zoom link that will arrive via email. Click here to Register for Zoom Office Hours

In-person office hours will be held on Thursdays at 2pm at the eScience Institute (address: WRF Data Science Studio, UW Physics/Astronomy Tower, 6th Floor, 3910 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195).

The Research Computing Club will be holding office hours fall term. In-person office hours will be held at the eScience Institute, WRF Data Science Studio.

Officer	Date	Time
Sam Shin	19 Nov	2pm
Teerth Mehta	3 Dec	2pm

If you would like to request 1 on 1 help, please send a ticket to help@uw.edu with "Hyak Office Hour" in the subject line to coordinate a meeting.