We have installed Singularity onto Hex and Hal. Singularity is a containerization system that allows users and admins to create contained operating systems and environments. Don’t like SLES on HPC, then run Ubuntu. Don’t want our version of OpenMPI then …
Singularity
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The beegfs cluster was updated to 2015.03.r23. The fhgfs volume is back up and mounted on all nodes.
During the Infiniband switch firmware upgrade an error was encountered. We have logged a support call with Mellanox regarding this. The switch …
Maintenance slot 13 March
The BeeGFS (fhgfs) cluster will be offline on Monday 13th March from 09:00 to 17:00 for a major update.
Please ensure that all jobs referencing the BeeGFS volume, /researchdata/fhgfs, are completed before 09:00.
The firmware on the Mellanox Infiniband switch …
Upcoming shutdown
BDC Shut down
The Bremner data centre is being shut down completely on Sunday the 12th of February between 08:00 and 17:00. The HAL cluster will be off-line during this time. This will not affect jobs running on HEX.
Head …
Worker node move
Yesterday we moved 8 HPC nodes to an alternate rack in order to alleviate pressure on UDC HVAC. The implication for this move is that nodes 608 – 615 are connected to the FHGFS storage via a second Infiniband switch. …
New GPU cards
We have completed the upgrade to the GPU portion of the hex cluster:
– Installed new GPU004 server with two nVidia K40 cards.
– Two additional nVidia K40 cards added to GPU003.
This brings the number of GPU cards in …
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