Hi Unity Users! Keep reading for some exciting announcements about Unity.
ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢
⚙️ New hardware alert! L4 Node added to Unity
Unity has been upgraded to include a new node that contains Nvidia L4 GPUs. The addition is included on our Node Features (Constraints) documentation page.
🚀 Our GPU job efficiency tool is available for beta testing!
Test out our GPU job efficiency tool! Example usage: job_eff_acct.py -u <username> --start=2025-02-01. Similar to sacct, it should default to the current user.
👤 Welcome Benjamin Pachev to the Unity Facilitation team!
Benjamin, a Research Fellow at UMass Amherst, received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, which focused on improving models of hurricane storm surge and automatic generation of CUDA kernels for solving PDEs. His research interests include GPU computing, optimizing HPC workflows, and automatic code generation for numerical methods. Benjamin loves to run, play board games, and spend time with family in his free time!
🗓️ The Unity Onboarding Workshop is ONE WEEK away
New to Unity or need a refresher? Join our facilitators on Friday, February 14, 2025, at 12:00 PM for an introductory session covering SSH access, Slurm job submission, and Unity OnDemand tools like JupyterLab and RStudio – all Unity users are welcome! You can see details about the workshop on our Event page. We encourage you to register for the workshop in advance. If you haven’t already, you can sign up for a Unity account in advance at unity.rc.umass.edu.