Unity News

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest includes additions to the documentation website and key upcoming events. NEW documentation 🎉 Security Statement – provides the terms under which Unity may be accessed and used. All use of Unity must adhere to these guidelines to help ensure fair and equitable access. Terms of Service – provides information on the security of the Unity platform. ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 🗓️ Attend the Unity Workshop for Social Science this Friday 9/27 at 12:00 PM! Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest includes new documentation and important announcements that you won’t want to miss. NEW documentation 🎉 MPI documentation on how to compile and run code that supports running on multiple nodes natively. Bioinformatics datasets documentation on commonly used datasets by bioinformatics domains. ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 🎉 Our own ColabFold MSAServer is live! You can now use our ColabFold MsaServer with the --host-url http://cfold-db:8888 option. This option will be added to the ColabFold documentation soon. Read More...

On October 22, 2024, we will be upgrading all Unity servers from the current operating system (OS), Ubuntu 20.04, to the new LTS (long term support) version, 24.04. This is a critical update to the cluster to ensure continued security and stability. However, an OS update is a significant undertaking and there will be several changes that you should be aware of as a Unity user. We will be updating this list on this page, so please bookmark for your reference during the update. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! Welcome back to the Unity Digest, which has shifted to a bi-weekly schedule since our last update. In this edition, you’ll find new and updated documentation, along with some key announcements. Let’s dive in! NEW documentation 🎉 R Parallelization. A secondary page to the Introduction to R on Unity docs that provides an overview on how to run R in parallel. UPDATED documentation ✏️ The Unity Nodes list was updated to add two new GPU features: fp64 and bf16; Node Features (Constraints) page provides the definitions under “GPU Feature”. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! After this week, the digest will transition to a bi-weekly schedule, so you’ll receive these updates every two weeks instead of every week. This week’s edition features one new piece of documentation and two important announcements! New documentation 🎉 Renv documentation. Provides an overview of virtual environments in R, including how to create and activate an environment, install and update packages, save and move an environment, use Python with renv, and more. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s Weekly Digest offers a sneak peek at some exciting documentation that’s coming your way soon! Upcoming documentation additions 👀 Renv documentation. Will provide an overview of virtual environments in R, including how to create and activate an environment, install and update packages, save and move an environment, use Python with renv, and more. R parallelization documentation. A secondary page to R docs that will provide an overview on how to run R in parallel. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week’s edition of the Weekly Digest features new documentation, updated documentation, and an exciting announcement. New documentation 🎉 Venv - Virtual environments in Python. This is an overview of virtual environments in Python, including how to create, activate, move, and deactivate an environment, install packages, and submit a slurm job with venv. Updated documentation ✏️ SSH Connection documentation was updated to recommend configuring an SSH agent so that you don’t need to enter a password every time you use SSH keys for SSH connections. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! This week calls for a light digest, since most of the Unity Team have been at PEARC’24! Useful updates to documentation Introduction to batch jobs was updated to include a section on checking job progress and a link to Monitor a batch job, a new documentation addition. Introduction to Slurm: The job scheduler was updated to include links to our recently added Slurm cheat sheet. Requesting an account was updated to clarify “PIs” as being faculty or select staff members who lead research groups. Read More...

Hi Unity Users! Welcome to the first edition of our Weekly Digest. This update will provide you all with an overview of the latest documentation, updates to existing documentation, cluster changes, and any other important announcements from your sysadmins. You can expect to receive these updates weekly. Let’s dive in! New documentation Slurm cheat sheet How to contribute to the Unity User documentation. Only for those that have access to the behind-the-scenes of our website and are beginning to actively contribute to the Unity User Documentation. Read More...