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Unity Digest 4/11/25

Friday, April 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! Keep reading for a few announcements about Unity! ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 ⏰Annual shutdown will begin on June 2nd at 9:00PM We are approaching our annual maintenance period, where Unity will be completely offline starting on June 2nd, at 9:00PM, for necessary maintenance and upgrades. We expect to be back online by 9:00AM on June 5th, if not earlier. This coincides with the annual shutdown at the datacenter Unity lives at, the MGHPCC. Read More...

UPCOMING EVENTS 3/25 - 4/4

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Some exciting upcoming events taking place this week and next week!

Unity Digest 3/14/25

Friday, March 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! Keep reading for some helpful documentation updates and announcements about Unity.

Unity Digest 2/28/25

Friday, February 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! Keep reading for some helpful documentation updates and announcements about Unity. UPDATED DOCS ✏️ Software Management was updated to include a section on how to build software from scratch Troubleshooting was updated to include additional information on how to solve SSH connection errors ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 ⚙️ New hardware alert! Three L40S nodes and one A16 node added to Unity Unity has been upgraded to include three new nodes with 12 Nvidia L40S GPUs, four on each node. Read More...

Unity Digest 2/7/25

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! Keep reading for some exciting announcements about Unity.

Unity Digest 1/24/25

Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! We have some exciting new documentation and upcoming events to announce.

Spring Workshops from the University of Rhode Island AI Lab

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

The University of Rhode Island’s Artificial Intelligence (URI AI) Lab invites the Unity community to attend their Spring 2025 workshops. The URI AI Lab is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and learning in the context of use-inspired AI. The Lab runs workshops on common AI tools and offers consultancy for research and educational projects.

Unity Digest 1/10/25

Friday, January 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! We hope you had a wonderful holiday and a happy new year! The Unity Digest is back with some updated documentation and key announcements. UPDATED DOCS ✏️ Updated our documentation on conda environments to reflect the change in module name ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 💡 Unity profile is now available for Nextflow nf-core pipelines An institutional Unity profile is now available for Nextflow nf-core pipelines (docs, config)! To use it, add the -profile unity option to any nf-core pipeline. Read More...

Unity Digest 12/13/24

Friday, December 13, 2024 at 2:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest features new documentation and useful announcements. NEW DOCS 🎉 Git Guide. An introductory quick guide to version control and Git. “Get Help” section: Frequently Asked Questions. Go here to find answers to general, commonly asked questions about Unity. Troubleshooting (new!). Go here to find solutions to common errors and issues encountered by Unity users. ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 📸 Snapshots for /project In addition to /work and /home, users can now recover files for /projects See more info about snapshots. Read More...

Unity Digest 11/21/24

Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM, by Lauren Saloio

Hi Unity Users! This week’s digest features both new documentation and exciting announcements. NEW DOCS 🎉 New Get Started section, which includes: Common terms (new!) HPC Resources (updated) Quick Start Guide Theory of HPC Overview of threads, cores, and sockets in Slurm for HPC workflows (new!) ANNOUNCEMENTS 📢 🏆 Harmony Awarded Through NSF Grant! The Unity team received an NSF grant to add a new system to the Unity Research Computing Platform, called Harmony. Read More...