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LSS will down for maintenance/updates on Tuesday, May 26th beginning around 8 am.

On February 24th, 2026 Iowa State University will be hosting a FREE workshop on using Slurm in an HPC environment. Participants will be given access to ISU's own HPC cluster Nova.

Nova will be undergoing routine maintenance on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

Jobs with time limits that cross the maintenance window will automatically be held and started once work completes.

Click Read More to view the presentation portion of the workshop Distributed Parallel Deep Learning taught by Dr. Aditya Balu.  This workshop took place November 13th, 2025.

Click Read More for the video presentation of the Containers Workshop at ISU from November 18th, 2025.

Slides for the presentation are available here: 2025-11-18 - HPC Container Workshop.pptx

On November 13th from 1-5pm ISU will be hosting a FREE workshop on Distributed Parallel Deep Learning. This is an introductory course on machine learning and using LLMs.

Click Read More to view ISU's HPC Workshop 3 - Introduction to Pipeline Development with Nextflow

Course Material: https://github.com/ISUgenomics/isu-nextflow-workshop

Click Read More below to view the recording of Introduction to Pipeline Development with Bash course material.

Course materials - https://github.com/ISUgenomics/isu-bash-pipeline-2025

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is holding a FREE one day workshop this November 3rd, 2025 on GPU Programming Using OpenACC. This will be an IN PERSON event hosted by several satellite sites.

Click Read More to view the recording of ISU HPC Workshop 1 - Introduction to Command Line (September 16th, 2025)

Github repository: https://github.com/ISUgenomics/isu-commandline-intro-2025

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is holding a FREE two day workshop this October 14th-15th on Machine Learning and BIG DATA. This will be an IN PERSON event hosted by several satellite sites.

Throughout September and October ISU will be hosting three workshops for HPC related activities.

LSS will down for maintenance/updates on Tuesday, January 13th beginning around 8 am.

Nova will be undergoing routine maintenance on Tuesday, January 6, 2025. Downtime may take longer than usual as the cluster network replacement is scheduled at this time.

Nova will be undergoing routine maintenance on Tuesday, August 19, 2025. Downtime may take longer than usual if the cluster network replacement is scheduled at that time.

LSS will down for maintenance/updates on Tuesday, August 5th beginning around 8 am.

Nova will be undergoing routine maintenance on Monday, May 19, 2025. Downtime is expected to be about a day but may be longer. Jobs with time limits that cross the maintenance window will automatically be held and started once work completes.

LSS will down for maintenance/updates on Tuesday, March 18th beginning around 8 am.