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Center News (Inter-University Services Version)
February 2019
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Contents
1. Service suspension for the maintenance at the end of the fiscal year
3. Supercomputer Continuation Application to the following FY2019（Reposting）
4. Call for Application of FY 2019 Service Course (1st Stage)（Reposting）
5. Request for submitting user reports of the supercomputer systems（Reposting）
7. ACCMS seminar "Past, current and future of the core IT systems of Kyoto University"（Reposting）
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1. Service suspension for the maintenance at the end of the fiscal year
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The supercomputer service of FY2018 will be terminated as below.
After the completion of the maintenance work to switch to the new fiscal year,
services of FY2019 will start from 9:00 a.m. on Thu. April 4, 2019.
Please note that we will cancel the remaining jobs of the supercomputer
at the time of the service termination.
We appreciate for your understanding and cooperation in advance.
〇Date and Time：From 9:00 a.m., Wed. March 27, 2019 to 9:00 a.m. Thu. April 4, 2019
〇Services to be Suspended：System A,B and C, ENVI/IDL License Service, HPCI Account Service,
User Portal, and Large-Format Printer
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Users who end the use of the supercomputer service at the end of FY2018
are required to back up their files themselves.
They cannot login to the system after the service termination,
however, file migration (scp, sftp) will be available until the end of May.
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3. Supercomputer Continuation Application to the following FY2019（Reposting）
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We will send "Supercomputer User List" described users of this fiscal year
to the payment managers in late January.
It is possible to make a continuation application easily by indicating
the "continuation" or "discontinuation" in the list and returning it to us
by the deadline if there is no change in the application contents.
If there is a change in the application contents, please note that
it is necessary to submit an" Application Form for Large Scale Computer Systems"
(計算機利用申請書).
The deadline for the continuation application shall be at 5:00 p.m. on Fri. February 22.
Please see the following URL for details on the continuation application.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/apply/other/continue.html
*** Notes ***
○ Although the procedure is possible even if you miss the deadline,
it may not be in time for the start of the service in April.
Please keep the deadline.
○ By making the continuation application, we continue registration of
the user number (login ID) as an entry course.
If you use group course or personal course, it is necessary to submit
an "Service Course Application Form" (サービス申請書).
Please make sure to apply.
○ We have mailed the notice for the continuation application to users as well up until now,
however, we will abolish the mailing the notice to users from this fiscal year.
Please share the notice and information directed to the payment managers with related users.
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4. Call for Application of FY 2019 Service Course (1st Stage)（Reposting）
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We call for application of the FY2019 Service Course starting from April 2019
in the following schedule.
This call is between fiscal years and details of the usage fees
and the application periods are different from the usual.
Please note that we may ask you to adjust the amount of resources
since each course has its limitation in available computing resources.
We appreciate for your understandings and cooperation in advance.
○Courses to be opened ・Application Period
Private Cluster Course, Organization Fixed Rate：From Fri. January 11, 2019 to Fri. February 15, 2019 No later than 5:00 p.m.
Group Course, Personal Course ：From Fri. January 11, 2019 to Wed. February 27, 2019 No later than 5:00 p.m.
Large-Scale Job Course (From April to June) ：From Fri. January 11, 2019 to Wed. February 27, 2019 No later than 5:00 p.m.
Please see the following URL for details.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/apply/service/service_2019_1.html
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5. Request for submitting user reports of the supercomputer systems（Reposting）
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In the research results obtained with the use of the large scale computer systems,
papers (including abstracts of papers) which were presented during this fiscal year
are required to be reported by one of the following methods.
Please report the unpublished ones as soon as they are published.
○By User portal
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/other/portal.html
○By Email
Please see the following URL for details.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/apply/report.html
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Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University (ACCMS)
calls for proposals of the Advanced Large-scale Computing System Service in FY2019.
This project is for private organizations and aimed at promoting strategic
and efficient research development by researchers of industry, government and academia utilizing supercomputer.
We look forward to your application.
〇Schedule of the call in FY2019 1st period
Fri. January 18, 2019 :Disclosure of the application details
Mon. February 25, 2019 :Deadline of the application submission
Beginning of March :Hearing
End of March :Announcement of the results
Beginning of April :Start of the project use
Please see the following URL for details.
http://web.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sentan/index
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7. ACCMS seminar "Past, current and future of the core IT systems of Kyoto University"（Reposting）
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Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) holds a seminar
once in a month.
We are inviting active researchers from a variety of areas,
and ask them to give talks about their research activity or issues in performing research,
hoping to provide an opportunity for fruitful discussion among participants.
IIMC provides core IT systems and services such as Kyoto University Integrated Network System (KUINS),
Information security and Business system (Private cloud, E-mail for faculty and staff,
Faculty and staff groupware) etc. to all members of the university.
At ACCMS Seminar on March 19, 2019, we invite Prof. Yasuki Saitou who retires
in this fiscal year and give a lecture on the future IT systems reviewing the history and
way of thinking so far, titled "Past, current and future of the core IT systems of Kyoto University".
We hope to have a lot of participants.
External participants are also welcome.
○Date: Tue. March 19, 2019 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
○Place: South Building of ACCMS 2nd floor, Lecture Room 202
○Fee: Free
○Application: Not necessary
○Inquiry: Yasuhiro Nagai, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University,
Yasuki Saitou, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University,
TEL :075-753-7437/7419
E-mail: nagai.yasuhiro.6a*kyoto-u.ac.jp(Please replace * with @.)
saitou.yasuki.5x*kyoto-u.ac.jp(Please replace * with @.)
○Host: Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University.
○Details: Please see the following URL for the details.
http://www.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/accms_web/event/1606.html