Greetings HPC Users, We are currently having issues with our virtualisation servers that are used to host all the supporting services in DICC. As some of the disks of the storage system for virtualisation servers died, much of the data had to be recreated. This process will take sometime, which means Read more
Greetings DICC User, We would like to inform you that there will be scheduled power maintenance in the Data Centre on 22 November 2024. All DICC infrastructures and services will be shutting down at 8am in the morning to prevent any potential data loss. All users are advised to plan your Read more
Greetings DICC User, We are currently experiencing network service disruption due to the transition of our ISP operator (MYREN). Internally, most network connections within the DICC network to non-Google platforms will be heavily affected as the traffic will be routed through other universities. Most users (mainly HPC users) will experience Read more
Greeting HPC users, As many of you might already be aware, we have a scratch cleanup policy enforced to purge data that is not being accessed for more than 90 days. The cleanup is to ensure that unused data is purged in order to provide sufficient scratch storage capacity for Read more
Greetings DICC User, We would like to inform that there will be a scheduled network service maintenance by UM JTM team in the data centre at the following date: There will be a short network service disruption expected during the maintenance works, where DICC services might be temporarily unavailable. Users Read more
Greetings HPC user, There will be scheduled maintenance for the HPC cluster on 9 September 2024, starting 8.00am, in order to perform migration to the new Scratch Storage layout. The cluster will be unavailable for access until further notice. The maintenance is expected to last for a couple of days, so users Read more
Greetings HPC User, We would like to give an update on what was happening with our HPC Scratch Storage in the past few weeks. There have been multiple disruptions on the scratch storage service where the storage becomes unresponsive to any read write operation, causing all the jobs in the Read more
Greetings HPC User, We have been experiencing major Scratch Storage service disruption since Monday. While we are trying to resolve the issue without bringing down the cluster, unfortunately the storage has been unable to heal properly and in a timely manner due to the high load coming from the cluster Read more
Greetings HPC Users, We would like to give some quick updates on what is going to happen in the HPC in the upcoming weeks. NVIDIA End-To-End LLM Bootcamp This event will be physically held in UM, Faculty of Computer Science from 16 July 2024 to 18 July 2024. All the Read more
Greetings HPC User, We would like to give some updates on some changes and new stuff introduced in the HPC cluster in June 2024. Cluster Node Information Querying information of the cluster nodes using sinfo or scontrol has been temporarily disabled due to some misuse cases found. We found that Read more