Did You Know ... Slack Edition

Did you know we have a Slack channel for HPC/Research Computing?

Signup to our Carnegie Institution for Science workspace (click here) and then join the #hpc channel. Please use your Google login, "@carnegiescience.edu", email address.

This channel is useful for a couple of reasons (as well as other Carnegie Science channels!):

Anyone can share photos, Googe Drive documents, articles, issues and best practices.

Anyone can send me an informal message to talk about HPC/Research Computing/Memex issues, software questions, usage statistics, and much more. If I can’t answer or address your concerns right away, a formal ticket can be created for a faster response ***.

Messages can be directed to a particular user or posted to the channel for everyone to see. General issues can be shared to #hpc and searched by other users with similar questions or issues.

To join, click here!!

Other things you can do are create a new private channel, have a group call (type "/call @user1 @user2"), set reminders (type "/remind help" for options), connect with a Github (type "/github help" for options), and much more (formatting messages, built-in commands)!

*** Slack does not replace our ticketing system. It is a way for us to discuss research computing without the formality of a ticketing system (by emailing memexsupport@carnegiescience.edu or typing "/freshservice-ticket" from Slack’s direct messaging system).