Perlmutter: Production job still pending

• (Doug) Pilot is not picking up the valid x509 User Proxy. Working with Asoka DeSilva to debug what has changed. 
• (Doug) updated the pilot to the latest version

TACC: LRAC (large scale) call for Horizon starting in the summer of 2026 -- proposal deadline: May 15

• Large allocations from 125,000 to 500,000 SUs (Horizon) and up to 50,000 (Vista) for six months duration
• current peer-reviewed research funding to support the activities conducted on Horizon
• Proposals from or including junior researchers are encouraged
• Horizon: a mix of CPU and GPU computing resources, including 4,750 Dell/NVIDIA Vera CPU nodes, and 2,000 Dell/NVIDIA Grace-Blackwell nodes
  • Vera: 2x of Grace, ~1x of AMD EPYC 7763 (Perlmutter)
  • Vera-Robin (Doudna) ~10x of Grace-Blackwell