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Introducing the Chicago Computes Program: providing critical digital infrastructure to enable research and scholarship

Himanshu Sharma | Posted on September 05, 2023

The 21st century is often referred to as the age of the knowledge economy. If (physical) infrastructure is required for an industrial economy, then Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is required for the knowledge economy. With…

ACER Fall 2023 Webinar Schedule

Posted on August 25, 2023

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce ACER’s Fall 2023 webinar schedule. These training sessions will be conducted via Zoom and typically take place on Thursday afternoons. Trainings typically include hands-on exercises hosted on…

HPC Partnership Program: Deadline for new node investments due August 18, 2023

Himanshu Sharma | Posted on July 14, 2023

ACER is thrilled to announce that our Summer call for high-performance computing (HPC) node purchases has officially begun! This is our second call for purchases since the HPC Partnership Program was restarted at…

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IMPORTANT: Backup or move your HPC data to Research Data Lake soon!

Posted on June 28, 2023

Dear HPC Users, As you are aware, the Extreme and SABER clusters, along with the associated storage systems, are scheduled to be decommissioned by the end of this year. In particular, the storage…

New data storage resources for UIC researchers

Posted on June 01, 2023

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research (ACER) is pleased to announce the availability of two new data storage resources for our UIC research community: Research Data Lake and Research Data Glacier. These resources…

Reminder: Time is Running Out to Purchase New Compute Nodes for Your Research

Posted on April 14, 2023

Dear Extreme and SABER users, We would like to remind you that the April 28 deadline for submitting purchase requests for compute nodes on UIC’s new cluster is fast approaching. As mentioned in…

Retirement of Extreme and Saber Clusters by December 2023

Posted on February 20, 2023

Dear HPC Users, Launched on January 29, 2014 as part of a campus-wide research computing initiative, the Extreme HPC Resource has served as UIC’s flagship supercomputing resource for numerous departments and colleges. By…

Restart of the UIC HPC Partnership program – Call for new resource allocations

Posted on February 03, 2023

Dear Colleagues, ACER is happy to announce the restart of the HPC Partnership (A.K.A. Condo) Program, made possible by UIC leadership under the Forward Initiative Program. To kick off this program, we are now…

Extreme OS Upgrade has been completed

Posted on July 01, 2022

Dear Extreme Users, The upgrade of the operating system on the Extreme computational cluster to CentOS 7 has been completed. The last step in the upgrade, the update of the OS on Extreme’s…

Reminder: Extreme OS upgrade begins Monday, June 27

Posted on June 24, 2022

Dear Extreme Users, We would like to remind you that starting on Monday, June 27, the operation system of the compute nodes running CentOS 6 on our Extreme computational cluster will be upgraded…