Greetings HPC Users, As some of you might already be aware, we are in the middle of setting up new infrastructure for the UM HPC cluster. As the setup comes closer to completion, we would like to take this opportunity to invite some of you to become a community tester Read more…
Greetings DICC Service Users, The scheduled service maintenance on 19 Feb 2024 is now complete. All services have resumed their normal operations. If you encountered any problems while using any of the services after the maintenance, please let us know. Thank you.
Greetings DICC Users, There will be scheduled maintenance starting on 19th February 2024, 8.00am to perform infrastructure maintenance and upgrade in order to prepare for upcoming new infrastructure integration. All DICC services will not be accessible during the maintenance period. The maintenance is expected to last for a few days, so Read more…
In the High Performance Computing (HPC) environment, all users execute their calculation or simulation via submitting a job. Ever since then, more and more complex and heavy jobs have been designed. It is quite common that in today’s scientific researches involve multiple different inputs with same calculations or a sequence Read more…
Greetings all DICC Service Users, The electrical works scheduled on 9 December 2023 were completed at 8.30 pm. All services have resumed their normal operations. If you encountered any problems while using any of the services after the maintenance, please let us know. Thank you for your patience.
Greetings all DICC Service Users, There will be scheduled electrical works in the Data Center on 9 December 2023. All the DICC services will be shut down and unavailable until electrical works are completed. All users are suggested to plan their works accordingly. The electrical works are expected to be completed Read more…
Greetings all Users, We just identified a security breach that happened at 7am in the morning on our HPC Confluence server, where the attacker was able to gain access to the server and deployed ransomware on the Confluence server. Based on our observations, only the Confluence server is affected and Read more…
In order to ensure job scheduling efficiency in the HPC cluster, the FairShare algorithm was used in our cluster scheduler. In our scheduler context, the resource usage accounting is referred to as billing. As the time goes on, we feel that the current way of resource billing can no longer Read more…
Greeting all HPC Users, The scheduled maintenance on 4 November 2023, 8am has been completed. Users should now be able to access the HPC cluster again. If you have any problem accessing the HPC cluster, please let us know via the service desk. Thank you.
Greeting HPC User, There will be a scheduled downtime for HPC cluster on 4 November 2023 (Saturday), 8am – 12pm to perform HPC scheduler migration in order to ensure service stability. During the scheduled downtime, access to the HPC service will be unavailable. Users are advised to plan their work Read more…