Disk space increase
Added an NFS mount to the Computational Biology JBOD. This will add 7+TB of disk space which should suffice until the ICTS cheap storage node arrives.…
ZA-UCT-ICTS status
Our Grid cluster currently has an issue with gLite services. While our overall infrastructure is fine (SAGrid site advertising and WMS are working properly) no jobs will be able to run on UCT's Grid cluster until this is resolved. We…
SANREN fault
We have received the following communication regarding the SANREN link. During this time access to Grid resources may be degraded.
Hi All,
We have received further communications regarding the fault that we are currently experiencing.
The fault has, as stated, …
Site BDII issue at ZA-UCT-ICTS
This morning at about 06:00 our Site BDII stopped working. This was
traced to the slapd BDII process which had died.
[root@srvslngrd002 ~]# /etc/init.d/bdii status
BDII slapd PID file exists but the process died [FAILED]
This has since been restarted…
BISRU and LS-DYNA
We've recently taken on some new users and a new package. Researchers in UCT's Blast Impact and Survivability Unit will be making use of ls-dyna, a strongly coupled multi-physics solver, on ICTS's HPC cluster.
Our first user is a…
Node decommission
We will be decommissioning our test node hpc300 as it will become part of our Stratus Lab test bed. More on this project later...
Update on nodes; We've added a new 200 series node, srvslnhpc212 with 8GB RAM. We've also…