Dear HPC Users, Recently we noticed a lot of interactive sessions were created and started via DICC OnDemand portal by many users, where significant of those jobs generate a huge amount of idle and unused time in the cluster. This is a waste in HPC resources. Based on our observation Read more…
Dear HPC users, We are sorry to say that there was an application storage service disruption in the HPC around 29 November 2022, 7.50pm (GMT+8). Connection to the application storage was lost during the period. This means that any jobs that run applications from /app will be affected. We managed to Read more…
Greeting HPC users, The system maintenance scheduled on 26 November 2022, 12.00am (GMT+8) was successfully completed on 26 November 2022, 9.30am (GMT+8). All users should be able to access the HPC Login Node and OpenOnDemand page. Storage Changes The NFS home storage in the HPC has been successfully upgraded to Read more…
Greeting all HPC Users, There will be a scheduled HPC maintenance on 26 November 2022, 12am to perform storage upgrade. HPC resources access is not guaranteed during the maintenance period. Users are advised to plan their work accordingly. Current NFS Home Storage will be upgraded to new Ceph Home Storage Read more…
Greeting HPC Users, We are pleased to announce that DICC Single Sign On Service service is now publicly available. The page can be accessed at https://sso.dicc.um.edu.my/ with and without VPN connection. Why is the DICC SSO Service introduced? Since only one account is required to access all kinds of services hosted in Read more…
Greeting HPC Users, It has been awhile since our last email for news and updates in the HPC cluster. We would like to give brief and short updates on what happened in the past few months, and what to expect in the near future. Maximum Allowed Wall Time Per Job Read more…
Greeting all HPC Users, In the past few months, we noticed that many jobs have been pending for too long due to the 14 days maximum wall time per job. This means that if the previous jobs are to run until finish, all the pending jobs will need to wait Read more…
Greetings HPC Users, As mentioned in our earlier email regarding VPN connection, we would like to inform you that the VPN connection is now fully enforced in our HPC cluster, starting 1st of August 2022. All connections to the HPC cluster will now require VPN connection to be established. Direct SSH Read more…
Greetings all HPC Users, Over the years, we have observed that many users try to request resources with bad habits or practice. Many users tried to ‘squeeze’ jobs into what resources are available at that moment. While this might allow jobs to start earlier, these habits however produce a lot Read more…
Greetings all HPC Users, With regards to the email we sent earlier this month, we would like to gladly announce that the VPN testing phase has gone considerably smoothly, and we have managed to fix several reported issues on the VPN servers. So far, we have not encountered any more errors Read more…