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Note: for the most current information on exceptions on HPCC's cluster please
consult its [Alerts](/news/alerts) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/UCR_HPCC) pages.

### Sep 2023
* Stata 17 has been superseded with Stata 18. Please update scripts relying on the stata/17 module to use the stata/18 module instead.

### Aug 2022
* In August 2022 we were awarded an MRI equipment grant ([#2215705](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215705&HistoricalAwards=false)) by NSF for the acquisition of a Big Data HPC Cluster in the total amount of $942,829. 

### Feb/Mar 2022
* Rollout of Rocky and DUO: Feb 18 through Mar 17, 2022. For details see [here](https://hpcc.ucr.edu/changes/).

### Mar 2021
* Viet Pham joins HPCC as HPC systems administrator. - Welcome Viet!

### May/Jun 2020
* Melody Asghari joins HPCC as HPC systems administrator assistant. - Welcome Melody!

### Mar/Apr 2020

* For updates on HPCC's operation during the COVID-19 crisis please visit the [Alerts](/news/alerts#hpcc-operation-during-covid-19-crisis) page of this site.

### Sep 2019

* Travis Nasser joins HPCC as HPC systems administrator assistant. - Welcome Travis!
* Major updates applied. - Check here for important [changes](/changes).

### Aug 2019

* Charles Forsyth left the position of HPC systems administrator and has moved on to new opportunities. - Good luck Chuck!

### Apr 2018

* Abraham Park joins HPCC as HPC systems administrator assistant. - Welcome Abe!

### Jun 2017

* Charles Forsyth joins HPCC as new full-time HPC systems administrator. - Welcome Chuck!

### Feb 2017

With funding provided by Michael Pazzani's office (RED) we were able to purchase and install major hardware upgrades. This included the following hardware resources:

* Added 28 Intel nodes with a total of 896 CPU cores (or 1,792 logical CPU cores) and 512 GB of RAM per node
* Added 8 NVIDIA K80 GPUs increasing total number of cuda cores in GPU queue to 59,904
* Redesign of Infiniband network to support new computer nodes and enhance future scalabilty of IB network to over 1000 nodes

### Dec 2016

* UCR approval of plans to form HPC Center 

### Sept 2016

* Expansion of GPFS storage system: 2 disk enclosures for 120 8TB drives
* Expansion of high-memory queue: 4 nodes
* Install of new Intel batch queue: 12 nodes

### Mar 2016

* Expansion of batch queues: 14 nodes

### Apr 2015 

* Deployment of new FDR IB network @ 56Gbs
* Deployment of 28 AMD nodes (2,048 AMD cores), funded by NSF-MRI-2014
* Deployment of high-memory Intel nodes (each with 1TB RAM)
* Deployment of GPU nodes (NVIDIA K80)
* Deployment of big data GPFS disk storage system, funded by NIH-S10-2014

### May 2014

Award of equipment grants from NSF and NIH

* NIH-S10-2014 (1S10OD016290-01A1): $652,816
* NSF-MRI-2014 (MRI-1429826): $783,537