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Phase transition

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Those of you who pay attention to the hex dashboard may have noticed the appearance of several new series, which are frustratingly inaccessible.  ICTS engineers have been implementing a UCT cloud over the last few months and one of the…
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BioPerl

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We've installed BioPerl on hex.  This is a toolkit of perl modules useful in building bioinformatics solutions. BioPerl…
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Hex Headnode – Downtime

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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.…
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Cluster upgrades

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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
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Citations

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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…
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New packages and node RAM protection

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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'
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100,000 active hours

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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. 100Kh ... and no, that's not 36 hours in…
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