Announcements

On behalf of CMEI, NLR runs an annual open call for research and development projects to request use of a defined quantity, or allocation, of the compute resources at NLR. This notification serves as the announcement of this call for allocation requests.

NLR domain name transition update for HPC users.

Information regarding the upcoming 2026 Computational Science Center Lightning Talk series for HPC users.

Kestrel will undergo scheduled downtime for maintenance and upgrades, and will be out of service starting on Tuesday, January 20th, at 6:00 a.m. and extending through Friday, January 30th.

A scheduled network outage will take place between July 11 and July 13, 2025.

Planned maintenance outage for the ESIF HPC Data Center. All hosted systems will be unavailable.

The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has released the call for FY 26 requests for computing on Kestrel, NREL's 3rd generation supercomputer. Research and development projects that are funded by EERE Offices as well as NREL projects funded by a non-EERE source are eligible to apply for computing resources for the FY 26 allocation period of performance, which runs Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026.

January 2025 HPC newsletter.

Last year, we launched a new effort to engage more students in computing and to amplify how computing is used for EERE work. Again, this year, we’re inviting students to get involved with Kestrel for FY25. Undergraduate and graduate students from any U.S. college or university can apply for time on Kestrel for their EERE mission-related research project.