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 as both head nodes will be powered off at 9am on Monday the
9th of December. All jobs must be terminated or check-pointed
before this date. The cluster will be down until Wednesday the 11th
of December.
Citations:
Those researchers who will be submitting papers or theses are
reminded that one of the terms of usage is citation of the ICTS HPC resources: https://ucthpc.uct.ac.za/Citations.html
Utilization of the head nodes:
We'd like to remind our users not to run jobs directly on the head
nodes of the clusters. Placing the head node into high utilization
negatively affects all other users as well as the scheduler. Any
process taking up an inordinate amount of CPU utilization will be
terminated by the administrators.