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…
SKA squeeze
ICTS HPC is very pleased to have played a small role in the development of SKA Squeeze, a data compression algorithm for the SKA radio telescope. Use was made of the GPGPU servers in order to achieve the speeds…
First HPC forum meeting
Several sysadmins met today at UWC for the first HPC forum meeting. Represented were UWC, UCT, CHPC, SANBI and the University of Stellenbosch. There was discussion on common schedulers, file systems and supporting technologies. Also several topics for further investigation…
Parallel tools
An intersting article on parallel tools by Jeff Layton. While there is a pssh utility for various transfer routines it's no longer being maintained. Other parallel versions of rsync seem to be script based: https://gist.github.com/rcoup/5358786 and http://blog.ciberterminal.net/2012/10/16/parallel-rsyncing-a-huge-directory-tree/…
New queue and the yellow blobs explained
What's up with the yellow warning lights on the cluster?
These nodes have been placed on hold and the reason for us doing this is so that we can 'drain' them of jobs prior to upgrading and patching. We prefer…
These nodes have been placed on hold and the reason for us doing this is so that we can 'drain' them of jobs prior to upgrading and patching. We prefer…