Hello Wharton Researchers! The Penn Advanced Research Computing Center (PARCC)’s Betty Cluster went online in production beginning on Sunday, March 15th. It will become a central resource for research computing at Penn. Wharton is actively partnering in its rollout and will be gradually transitioning our research workloads there from our…Read More
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HPCC Dropbox Client Retirement
Dropbox on Wharton’s HPC Cluster has been a great tool for many of you! The ability to sync files between desktop, HPCC, home, phone, and collaborators is of immense value. However, Dropbox has announced that on November 7th, 2018 Dropbox will no longer support our setup* with their official client,…Read More
Minimal Linux with Packer and Vagrant
As an IT professional, it’s important to take the time to sharpen your tools. And as a systems programmer and project leader in research computing, one of my most valuable tools is a lean, mean operating system install. Prior to the deployment of Wharton’s High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC), the…Read More
Running Research Code in the Cloud
Part of the recent Wharton High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) upgrade was augmentation with Amazon EC2 cloud resources. Wharton Research Computing recently piloted the deployment of a cloud-bursting solution with Univa UniCloud. After much help from friendly initial users, we have worked out most of the kinks. Now, we have a…Read More