Agate is being retired on August 14, 2025 at 8am. In order to ease the retirement, users who had access to Agate on July 16, 2025 were added to the CTS-2 machine Bengal.
We know many are sad to see this workhorse go since it has worked so well for serial jobs. To that end, a new serial partition is being created on Bengal. This partition will start with the following attributes which will be revised depending as needed
- Name: pserial
- Use: for running serial only code which cannot be restarted
- Size: 2 nodes/224cpus
- Maximum Cores per user: 25, no exclusive nodes
- Maximum runtime: 100hrs
Like Agate, banks are required for running jobs on Bengal.
The RZTrona system is also scheduled for retirement in the next couple of months. In preparation for this, there will be a similar pserial partition on RZHound.
Information on the different bronze banks and who can authorize each bank is available at https://myconfluence.llnl.gov/x/tQNtDQ. The process for getting a bronze bank is available at https://myconfluence.llnl.gov/x/9I2RCQ”