…Hex Headnode – Downtime
Unfortunately the Hex headnode had a bit of a wobble and needed a restart. There was a brief 5 minute interruption to restart the server. The server is now available. Apologies for the downtime.…
New applications and queue limits
We've installed FastQC 0.10.1 and FastX-toolkit 0.13.2 on the hex cluster.
We've also limited the maximum number of jobs that individual users can queue at once on hex's UCTlong queue:
set queue UCTlong max_user_queuable = 50
This prohibits users
…CHPC conference and cloud training
Last week the ICTS HPC team attended the CHPC 2013 National Meeting at the CTICC. This well run and enjoyable event encouraged networking between administrators, users and vendors with plenty of very interesting talks and discussions. The CHPC's support of
…Cluster upgrades
Both clusters are back up again after the upgrade, we'd like to thank our users for their cooperation and patience over the weekend. Apart from numerous software patches we also transfered various data volumes to the new Netapp as our
…Enable FTP service for Galaxy – Web-based platform for Data intensive biomedical research
The Galaxy instance we have running at the University of Cape Town operates on the Novell SLES 11 platform. The SMT repositories do not have ProFTPD, which is the recommended FTP service for Galaxy. Also, there is a lack of …
Citations
It is very gratifying to see so many of our HPC users and also some ex UCT users' names in our latest citation. We'd like to encourage all other users who will be publishing in the near future to…
New packages and node RAM protection
The following packages have been installed on the Hex cluster:
Ncbi-tools 2.2.28+, Blastall, Qiime 1.7.0, Pyfasta 0.5.1, Krona 2.4, Samtools 0.1.19, Amos 3.1.0, Bowtie 1.0.0, Bowtie2 2.1.0, BWA 0.7.5a, Cufflinks 2.1.1
We've also implemented automatic node protection as some users'
…100,000 active hours
This evening our cluster achieved another small mile stone, 100,000 active computational hours, or put another way, all the current jobs running at the moment have consumed about 11.4 years of computation.
... and no, that's not 36 hours in…
... and no, that's not 36 hours in…Important: ICTS HPC cluster downtime
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…