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Welcome to the Maryland Institute for Innovative Computing!

Fueling the next generation of technical talent, today.

Exciting News! We are thrilled to welcome you to the Maryland Institute for Innovative Computing! Our mission? To ignite the spark of innovation and pave the way for the future's tech...

Posted: August 9, 2023, 9:22 AM

QM offers free Accessibility & Usability Resource Site

Built by the peer community for the peer community

In response to institutional and educator priorities for making education accessible for all learners, the Quality Matters peer community created the Accessibility and Usability Resource Site...

Posted: August 3, 2023, 10:18 AM

Scheduling Downtimes for ada and taki clusters

To all HPCF Users: DoIT will be scheduling a series of downtimes over the next two months in order to provide system administrators with time to upgrade and improve various aspects of both the...

Posted: July 28, 2023, 5:34 PM

FA2023 Courses Created in Blackboard on July 25, 2023

Blackboard course shells for FA2023 were created on July 25, 2023.  The Ultra Course Preview setting is enabled in FA2023 courses, which allows faculty to preview OR convert a new Original course...

Posted: July 26, 2023, 9:50 AM

Grade by student or question in Ultra courses for Aug update

New Google integration, customize image for learning modules

The August release reveals a new update for the Ultra grading system, enabling faculty to grade by question or student, or mix and match the approach. Additional updates to Ultra for August...

Posted: July 24, 2023, 12:47 PM

Math 447/627 Introduction to Parallel Computing

Fall 2023, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 01:00-02:15 pm

Dear HPCF Users, I wanted to make sure you knew that I am offering Math 447/627 Introduction to Parallel Computing this fall again. It has both an undergraduate and graduate level. The...

Posted: July 23, 2023, 10:27 PM

Request Tracker System Update - RT 5.0.4

We're pleased to share that Request Tracker (rt.umbc.edu) has been updated to the latest version of 5.0.4 on Wednesday, 7/19/2023. This update brings performance and quality of life improvements,...

Posted: July 21, 2023, 11:24 AM

Taki still having issues

There are ongoing issues with Slurm on Taki

There are still problems with Taki. I am currently working on rebooting the nodes across the cluster. If you see nodes marked as draining or drained, these will be rebooted. This is an ongoing...

Posted: July 7, 2023, 3:46 PM

Taki is again having issues

There is a problem with the Slurm scheduler on Taki

We are again experiencing issues with the Slurm scheduler on Taki. If you currently have jobs running on Taki, please be aware that you may need to rerun these jobs. It is very possible we may...

Posted: July 6, 2023, 1:03 PM

Resume use of taki

To all taki users, Users can begin normal use of the taki cluster environment. Running jobs at the start of the downtime were unaffected. Roy Prouty UMBC HPCF System Administrator

Posted: July 3, 2023, 1:45 PM