Month: Nov 2013

New packages and node RAM protection

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The following packages have been installed on the Hex cluster:
Ncbi-tools 2.2.28+, Blastall, Qiime 1.7.0, Pyfasta 0.5.1, Krona 2.4, Samtools 0.1.19, Amos 3.1.0, Bowtie 1.0.0, Bowtie2 2.1.0, BWA 0.7.5a, Cufflinks 2.1.1
We've also implemented automatic node protection as some users'
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100,000 active hours

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This evening our cluster achieved another small mile stone, 100,000 active computational hours, or put another way, all the current jobs running at the moment have consumed about 11.4 years of computation. 100Kh ... and no, that's not 36 hours in…
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Important: ICTS HPC cluster downtime

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ICTS HPC cluster downtime: The ICTS HPC team will be upgrading various components of both clusters in early December.  We will be putting the clusters into draining mode on Friday the 6th of December.  All worker nodes as well…
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SKA squeeze

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ICTS HPC is very pleased to have played a small role in the development of SKA Squeeze, a data compression algorithm for the SKA radio telescope.  Use was made of the GPGPU servers in order to achieve the speeds…
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