Unity News

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. Read More...

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 Overview of threads, cores, and sockets in Slurm for HPC workflows (new!) 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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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. Read More...

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! Read More...

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. Read More...

On October 22, 2024, we will be upgrading all Unity servers from the current operating system (OS), 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. However, an OS update is a significant undertaking and there will be several changes that you should be aware of as a Unity user. We will be updating this list on this page, so please bookmark for your reference during the update. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! Welcome back to the Unity Digest, which has shifted to a bi-weekly schedule since our last update. In this edition, you’ll find new and updated documentation, along with some key announcements. Let’s dive in! NEW documentation 🎉 R Parallelization. A secondary page to the Introduction to R on Unity docs that provides an overview on how to run R in parallel. UPDATED documentation ✏️ The Unity Nodes list was updated to add two new GPU features: fp64 and bf16; Node Features (Constraints) page provides the definitions under “GPU Feature”. Read More...