It's been a busy summer for CCR's system support staff. Check out these articles to see what you may have missed!
IMPORTANT!
Academic (UB-HPC) cluster partitions merged nearly all into one
New Panasas scratch storage online 9/1 - GPFS going away 9/29
Several updates to the Slurm job scheduler could affect your use:
Changed Slurm authentication method to PAM (8/4 downtime)
Configured pam_slurm_adopt module to restrict users' access to only nodes their jobs are running on (9/1 downtime)
New Slurm hardware and annual account sync with ColdFront (9/1 downtime)
Other system changes:
limits.conf settings changed to allow for core dumps
Modules deprecated NOTE: this list is updated regularly
OnDemand updated to version 1.8 (September 1 - more features to be added throughout the fall semester)
Coming up for September 29th downtime:
Operating system updates on nodes and front-ends
GPFS removed from service
NVIDIA driver updates on GPU nodes
Slurm update (minor release)
X11 built into Slurm for salloc/srun - this will provide an alternative to fisbatch
Dori Sajdak
It's been a busy summer for CCR's system support staff. Check out these articles to see what you may have missed!
IMPORTANT!
Academic (UB-HPC) cluster partitions merged nearly all into one
New Panasas scratch storage online 9/1 - GPFS going away 9/29
Several updates to the Slurm job scheduler could affect your use:
Changed Slurm authentication method to PAM (8/4 downtime)
Configured pam_slurm_adopt module to restrict users' access to only nodes their jobs are running on (9/1 downtime)
New Slurm hardware and annual account sync with ColdFront (9/1 downtime)
Other system changes:
limits.conf settings changed to allow for core dumps
Modules deprecated NOTE: this list is updated regularly
OnDemand updated to version 1.8 (September 1 - more features to be added throughout the fall semester)
Coming up for September 29th downtime:
Operating system updates on nodes and front-ends
GPFS removed from service
NVIDIA driver updates on GPU nodes
Slurm update (minor release)
X11 built into Slurm for salloc/srun - this will provide an alternative to fisbatch