10 million CPU hours
This weekend we passed the 10,000,000 CPU hours mark. This is the sum total of CPU hours of all clusters our users have run jobs on since 2010: Roughly the equivalent of running a single core computer for 416,000 days…
SLES12 HPC Live Patching using kGraft
The end of another week has brought about some exciting developments in eResearch HPC. We have upgraded the series700 nodes from SLES11sp3 to SLES12. The main reason for the upgrade was to test the live patching technology called” kGraft”. HPC…
High Memory Nodes
We have installed two high memory DELL R820 servers into the 800 series. Each server has four sockets with six cores of 2.4GHz each. There are also thirty two 32GB DIMMS making up 1TB of RAM, although these memory chips …
Say hello to HAL
Over the past few months we’ve been referring to a new type of scheduler that we’ve been testing. We decided to move away from PBS as MAUI is no longer being maintained. The scheduler we have selected, SLURM, is …