OpenMPI and Montage
We have updated the version of OpenMPI on hex. The older version, 1.8.8 is still available, however you can now select 1.10.1 with the module command. One of the Galfact scientists has compile Montage for us and this is also…
WACS and SEACOM failures
Fri 06:36 SEACOM stable, WACS will require a maintenance window to replace a controller card at the London POP. Thu 19:50 Update, SEACOM link is restored but WACS still down. Thu 19:25 There is currently a dual SEACOM and WACS…
Compiling the latest GCC version 5.3.0
Previously on our blog we described how to install the GNU C compiler. Since then GNU have updated their installation instructions which makes things much easier: “The difficult way, which is not recommended, is to download the sources for GMP,…
Jan 2016 UCT HPC maintenance
What follows is a critical report on the cluster upgrade. Our plan was to upgrade the cluster operating systems on all servers and to bring the FHGFS file system up to the latest supported release, BGFS. Additionally we planned to…