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The user meeting on the new scheduling policy on June 15 was attended by 16 members of the user community.

Major updates to the scheduling policy on tara were implemented on Tuesday, June 14. These include adoption of fair-share priority, QOS's, and a change to the available partitions. All users should check the following pages:

• See the updated usage policy
• Read the new scheduling policy
• Check the how to run tutorial for updates

• usage policy
• how to run tutorial

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics hosted the 5th Annual Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC. One of the conference attractions was the student poster presentation, where HPCF RA Andrew Raim collected third prize for his poster The approximate fisher information matrix for multinomial mixture models. This work with advisor Dr. Nagaraj Neerchal featured simulations that were run in parallel using the SNOW package for R.

A new MRI proposal was submitted to extend the 2009 MRI proposal. The new proposal features a strong participation of faculty, featuring a total of 41 researchers from 15 departments and research centers across the campus. These totals include departments new to the effort such as Information Systems and the Institute of Fluorescence.

HPCF RA David Trott and Dr. Matthias Gobbert attended the Boston area COMSOL conference where they presented their conference paper Conducting finite element convergence studies using COMSOL 4.0. This is an example of the cross collaboration between CIRC and HPCF.

HPCF users met for a presentation by Dr. Gobbert on the features of tara and its performance. Complete details of the performance results presented can be found in the tech. reports HPCF-2010-2 and HPCF-2010-4 on the Publications page. ENGR 104 was filled to capacity with 21 attendees. The photos show users with tara during the tour of the computer room and during the hands-on training session with HPCF RAs Andrew Raim and David Trott.

Andrew Raim and David Trott, graduate students in the Statistics and Applied Mathematics programs, respectively, have been appointed as HPCF RAs for 2010-11. The HPCF RAs are available to provide user support and help with research on tara. Please send e-mail to hpc-support@lists.umbc.edu to make initial contact with them.

The new cluster tara was released for public use. Students in Math 627 have already been using it for the semester. With the transfer and final synchronization of all data to the new central storage completed during the scheduled downtime on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, the cluster was ready to release. The first user meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 30, 2010. We thank the tireless work of DoIT staff in the setup of the cluster and its storage and cooling.

HPCF is starting the search for a post-doctoral research associate to extend the facility's user support significantly through collaborative research in a consulting approach. Please help identify suitable candidates! The complete job ad is posted.

HPCF releases its new webpage design at www.umbc.edu/hpcf. The new, more flexible design features was developed in collaboration with our partners in CIRC (www.umbc.edu/circ) and features more attractive visuals and a current look tied in with UMBC's colors. This webpage is designed to document the new cluster tara, which is in testing now and will be released to the public soon. Information about the existing system hpc can be found at the hpc webpage.