New GPU cards
We have completed the upgrade to the GPU portion of the hex cluster: – Installed new GPU004 server with two nVidia K40 cards. – Two additional nVidia K40 cards added to GPU003. This brings the number of GPU cards in…
High memory nodes downtime
Two of the high memory nodes, 801 and 802, are being moved to a new rack. They will be unavailable until 14:00 7th July.…
June maintenance slot
ICTS will be conducting power maintenance in their data centers on Sunday the 26th of June between 09:00 and 17:00. The Bremner data center will be shut down completely and hence the Hal Slurm cluster will be offline. We will…
HPC January maintenance
The ICTS hex cluster will be down for scheduled maintenance from Monday January 11th 09:00 to Tuesday January 12th 17:00. The head node, data node and all worker nodes will be patched and rebooted, hence all jobs should be canceled…
The next HPC hurdle: Co-Design
Co-Design is a new HPC infrastructure design, essentially the next level of performance and scale. Co-design in a nutshell is the ability to reduce as much of the CPU cycle operations to a design whereby there are synergies created between…
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 …
New worker nodes
We've installed four new 600 series worker nodes on hex. This increases the core count by 256, and we hope to add a few more to both the hex and hpc clusters shortly. If you notice anything odd please let…