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…
Greeting HPC Users, We will be having scheduled maintenance from 25 October 2023, 12pm to 6pm to upgrade HPC scheduler in the cluster. All maintenance will be performed live without shutting down the servers. Users are advised to plan their work accordingly as part of the service will be temporarily unavailable. During the Read more…
Scientific Applications in the domain of High Performance Computing (HPC) usually have massive requirements when it comes to computing resources like CPU, memory, GPU, I/O throughputs and fast interconnects. The massive requirements are why most of the workloads are traditionally run in a bare-metal setup, directly on physical servers, which Read more…
Storage plays an important role for data to be stored reliably and processed swiftly in a HPC environment. HPC is designed to handle and analyse intensive and complex computational tasks, such as weather forecasting, molecular modelling and machine learning[1]. Therefore, the storage within a HPC environment is not simply about Read more…
It has been nearly 2 years since we migrated our infrastructure to PTM Data Centre 2, and there was almost no service disruption since then. On 2 August 2023, we had our first major service blackout 2 years after migration. Although we were able to resolve most of the previous Read more…