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M3D-C1 Meeting�Nate Ferraro�May 19, 2025

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Agenda

  • Status update & recent code changes

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  • Portal decommissioning

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Regression Tests

commit 93c258ab875143654b45a015605c424cf1676433

Date: Mon May 19 09:31:37 2025 -0400

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  • Stellar (m3dc1/devel): PASSED
  • Perlmutter CPU (m3dc1/devel-cpu): FAILED
    • adapt/devel_perlmutter_cpu:

Error: lines are different lengths

FAILED: C1ke files do not match

“APF FAILED: apf_zoltan compiled empty !”

  • Flux (m3dc1/devel): PASSED
  • PPPL Cluster (m3dc1/devel-centos7): No longer supported

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Recent Code Changes

  • Kleiner: added python script to convert m3dc1_meshgen input files to m3dc1_mfmgen input files

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  • Kleiner: improvements to python viz/analysis routines

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  • C. Liu: several updates to particle version

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  • C. Liu: new capability to advect REs using method of characteristics

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Portal Decommissioning

April 17, 2025: Software freeze on portal cluster. New unix accounts created from now on will not be able to submit jobs on the portal cluster.

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May 20th, 2025: Removing some of the oldest nodes. The 6 or more different types of nodes on the portal cluster will be reduced to 80 compute nodes of two uniform types.

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June 17th, 2025: Access will be limited to users who are critical to NSTX-U operation. Access requests for users need to be approved by Stan Kaye.

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September 16th, 2025: network access to the portal cluster will be limited to connections coming from the flux cluster and the Nomachine/NX systems.

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December 9th, 2025: fully decommissioned.

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Other issues

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