We noticed a while back that several of our GPU cards retained high utilization even though no processes were running on them.
nvidia-smi Fri Mar 23 13:52:55 2018 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 375.26 Driver Version: 375.26 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name…
Last year GitHub announced (not very publically) that they would no longer be supporting TLSv1 or TLSv1.1. Unfortunately the GitHub clients and supporting software have not been kept up to date by those supporing numerous OS repos. If you try …
Achievements:
Earlier this year we listed our 100th acknowledgement, 20 million computational hours and 2 million jobs processed since inception in 2009. If you have recently published work acknowledging usage of the HPC cluster please let us know.
PBS script …
If you no longer require your HPC account please let us know. We will shortly begin disabling accounts of those researchers whose accounts have expired.
Due to continued abuse of our cluster resources we are immediately reducing the maximum wall …
We recently ran into an issue where an R package would not install as it required a more recent ISO C++ standard than provided by gcc. The workaround in this case was to edit the R makefile in lib64/R/etc and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …