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The University of Rhode Island’s Artificial Intelligence (URI AI) Lab invites the Unity community to attend their Spring 2025 workshops. The URI AI Lab is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and learning in the context of use-inspired AI. The Lab runs workshops on common AI tools and offers consultancy for research and educational projects.

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. This allows for each process to be submitted as a slurm job and use apptainer for dependency management.

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.

📥 More Space in /scratch3

• We now have 500T more scratch space available in /scratch3!

🛜 Ethernet Speed Features

• For jobs with network speed requirements, you can now specify 10gbps, 25gbps, 40gbps, or 100gbps.
• See network speed options.

❄️ Reminder: Winter Break Reduced Help Hours 12/23/24 to 1/5/25

• The Unity facilitation and systems administration teams will have reduced services and help hours from December 23, 2024, until January 5, 2025.

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

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. Harmony is designed to efficiently serve large numbers of researchers and students, expand equitable computing access, and support the demand for computing resources in educational settings. Featuring high core-count ARM architecture CPUs and NVIDIA A16 and L4 GPUs, Harmony is equipped for cost-effective and power-efficient computing.

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. For information on module stack changes, partition list changes, and general help or office hours, see our post-upgrade guide.

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.

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest includes some important announcements that you won’t want to miss.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢

🚨 FOURTH REMINDER: Ubuntu 24.04 Update on October 22, 2024

We are less than a week from the upcoming OS update on October 22, 2024. This will be a significant and critical operating system update to Unity. All Unity servers will move from the current operating system, Ubuntu 20.04, to the current LTS version, Ubuntu 24.04. This update is necessary for Unity’s continued maintenance and security.

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest includes additions to the documentation website and key upcoming events.

NEW documentation 🎉

• Security Statement – provides the terms under which Unity may be accessed and used. All use of Unity must adhere to these guidelines to help ensure fair and equitable access.
• Terms of Service – provides information on the security of the Unity platform.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢

🗓️ Attend the Unity Workshop for Social Science this Friday 9/27 at 12:00 PM!

Learn how you can leverage the Unity Platform for social science research! This workshop is meant as a general onboarding workshop with a specific focus on tools for social science research, and requires no prior Unity experience to attend. Bring your questions and curiosity. All are welcome!

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest includes new documentation and important announcements that you won’t want to miss.

NEW documentation 🎉

• MPI documentation on how to compile and run code that supports running on multiple nodes natively.
• Bioinformatics datasets documentation on commonly used datasets by bioinformatics domains.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢

🎉 Our own ColabFold MSAServer is live!

You can now use our ColabFold MsaServer with the --host-url http://cfold-db:8888 option. This option will be added to the ColabFold documentation soon.

The University of Rhode Island’s Artificial Intelligence (URI AI) Lab invites the Unity community to attend the following data and computational science-focused workshops. The URI AI Lab is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and learning in the context of use-inspired AI. The Lab runs workshops on common AI tools and offers consultancy for research and educational projects. For questions regarding the URI AI Lab workshops, contact Indrani Mandal.