HPC 2020 update
TL;DR; – The cluster head node operating system, firmware and storage system have all been patched\upgraded. – The wall time for ada has been increased from 72 to 170 hours – Matlab is now available on the cluster Cluster…
Update on BeegFS storage
The disk cluster is configured and running. Four Dell R740DX servers each with a combination of twelve 10TB NLSAS and two 240GB SSD drives are providing a 345TB scratch volume, an 8TB /home volume and a 4TB software volume. Each …
Maintenance slot 13 March
The BeeGFS (fhgfs) cluster will be offline on Monday 13th March from 09:00 to 17:00 for a major update. Please ensure that all jobs referencing the BeeGFS volume, /researchdata/fhgfs, are completed before 09:00. The firmware on the Mellanox Infiniband switch …
FhGFS Metadata server migration
FhGFS is a awesome distributed parallel filesystem. Its simple and so powerful with a RDMA backend that knocks the performance socks off other distributed filesystems, IMHO. Today however I needed to migrate the metadata server from one host ( a…