Ever since we set up the HPC cluster in 2015, our cluster has been using the Environment Modules system in managing all the applications and modules in the system. The platform was running fine since the first day of implementation with some occasional hiccups due to misconfiguration, but it falls Read more…
Dear all HPC Users, There will be scheduled maintenance on 11 May 2022, 7.00am to perform system update and critical fixes. Access to the HPC cluster will be temporarily unavailable during the maintenance, and the maintenance is expected to complete within an hour. All running jobs should not be affected and will Read more…
Dear all HPC Users, We are currently experiencing problems with home storage. The cluster has to be immediately brought down temporarily to perform necessary fixes. We will be updating on the progress once it is up and running again. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Update: The HPC cluster is now back Read more…
Dear HPC Users, We have recently redesigned some of the script modules located in the HPC login node (umhpc). These modules now have an color-coded interface that is much easier to read. The following are some screenshots of all the redesigned modules: Message of the Day (Login Banner) Lustre Cleanup Read more…
Dear all HPC Users, We have recently identified a bug in the OpenOnDemand HPC Dashboard module (XDMod) which prevents users with username shorter than 5 characters to be unable to access their job account details in XDMod. If you are one of those affected users previously, you should now be able Read more…
Dear all HPC Users, In order to allow users to better plan their job submissions in the HPC cluster, we have decided to allow users to view all the jobs in the queue. All users should now see jobs other than your own jobs when you input squeue command. If you have Read more…
We are currently experiencing temporary SMTP outage. Any application involving SMTP usage such as Service Desk will not be able to send out any notification. Please do actively check the Service Desk if you have any active tickets. We are in the process of resolving this issue and will update as soon Read more…
It has been awhile since our last update. We are pleased to announce that there will be a major feature update to our current HPC environment, which we believe will bring significant improvement for all the HPC users. Hereby, we would like to invite all of you to join our Read more…
We would like to inform you that our HPC service is now accessible again starting 1.00pm, 30 September 2021. We managed to identify the root cause of the internal service which is causing random failure on the HPC core component. We have applied fixes to that internal service, and did not Read more…
Dear DICC Users, We are currently experiencing another major service disruption due to an unknown internal service problem. We are currently in the process of investigating so we will be having an unscheduled emergency maintenance. We will be updating again once the service is stabilized and accessible again. We are Read more…