Features of TeraGrid User & System News

Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.

Features of TeraGrid User & System News include:

• A calendar view for outages and other dated events
• RSS feeds
• Improved searchability for messages
• A database backend for subscribers and messages
• Additional detail for outages and system availability
• Email delivery as a background task
• Integration with Inca for displaying outage announcements as whole-system downtimes
• A redesigned subscription process based on TeraGrid Central Database
• More specificity for systems and groups affected by date-based items
• Better access to modification of existing items
• User interface improvements, such as mouse-over and calendar details
• Item tagging for inclusion in separate delivery channels
• Date filters (eliminating the need for an archive area)
• Mandatory news category, from which users may not unsubscribe and to which only super-administrators may post

Note: If you post outages, make sure to take advantage of the dated system outages for Inca reporting when appropriate.

TeraGrid staff at San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) administer the User & System News service. To send suggestions and comments, email  docgroup @ sdsc.edu .

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