New version of Crux availabe
We've upgraded our Crux tandem mass spectrometry analysis software from version 1.35 to 1.36 to take advantage of new functionality.…
Surviving the power outage
Yesterday's Peninsula wide blackout fortunately had no effect on our HPC and Grid systems. Both data center generators kept their UPS's running until power was restored after about an hour.
As can be seen from the monitoring dashboard all devices…
ZA-UCT-CERN downtime
The middleware is being upgraded to EMI 1 (Kebnekaise) and will be down for a day or so. UCT-CERN will now become the test bed for a MoU initiative with EMI to assist with product support and training. More info...…
Certificate update
The certs on our CE and Site BDII have just been updated. Jobs are running on our CE currently so things look OK.…
Compile / Install / Deploy OpenFOAM 2.0
Big-Bytes decided to write up a quick tutorial on how to install OpenFOAM 2 in the user space. Administrators and users constantly battle with dependencies especially with the latest software releases. This problem begins when a system administrator installs and…
Memory upgrade complete
The cluster memory upgrade seems to have gone OK, /scratch01 is remounted. Server 209 is still at 4GB as we only budgeted for 9 memory kits. Once we can confirm that the extra 4GB RAM
has made a difference for…
RAM upgrade
THE ICTS-HPC team will be upgrading the
RAM in several of the 200 series servers between 10 and 12 on Friday the
16th of September 2011. The implication is that the /scratch01 disk
area will be unavailable at this time.
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RAM upgrade
Our new RAM has arrived. We're taking node 211 offline to test the new chips, this should have no impact on computation or the Gluster file system.
Update: server upgraded from 4 to 8GB of RAM. We'll do the…
Compiling ABySS
From the ABySS web site: ABySS (Assembly By Short Sequences) is a de novo,
parallel, paired-end sequence assembler that is designed for short
reads. The single-processor version is useful for assembling genomes up
to 100 Mbases in size.…