ExCL January Meeting 2026

January 2026 ExCL meeting slides.

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Highlights from the January 2026 ExCL Monthly Meeting

1. Modernized Infrastructure & Growth

• ExCL now supports 98 users across 34 groups, including 66 external users from 29 organizations.
• Significant contributions: 11 papers, 2 journals, 27 presentations citing ExCL in the past year.
• Focus on reliability, storage stability, and user self-service to accelerate research.

2. TRC Lab A102: Expanding Capabilities

• Dedicated space for embedded systems, microelectronics, AI, and neuromorphic computing.
• Equipped with Zenith systems, AI-testbeds, neuromorphic testbeds, and photonic-ready infrastructure.
• Future vision: Quantum, photonics, and automated AI-driven experimentation.

3. Preemptable Slurm Queues

• Added nvidia-long as a preemptable GPU queue to improve utilization.
• Jobs can be requeued with --requeue for long-running tasks.
• Documentation: https://docs.excl.ornl.gov/quick-start-guides/slurm.

4. PYX Discussion: Accelerating AI/HPC Research

• Introducing pyx, a private GPU-aware package registry.
• Benefits:
  • Auto-detect hardware and serve pre-built wheels.
  • Shared build cache for faster installs.
  • Time-to-Science reduced from 15+ minutes to <10 seconds.
• Learn more: https://docs.pyx.dev/ and https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/520/pyx-the-other-side-of-the-uv-coin-announcing-pyx.

5. Other Ongoing Efforts

• Networking for ExCL microelectronics and neuromorphic lab to complete by Jan 20.
• Upcoming GPU deployments: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT.

Stay Connected

• Check out the inaugural ExCL Newsletter for research highlights and best practices.
• For questions or collaborations, reach out to the ExCL team.