And that was the year that was. 2011 was an extremely interesting and successful year for ICTS HPC. After the establishment of a micro cluster we saw an enthusiastic uptake by researchers, culminating in over 20 users and just over
…Keeping up appearances
One of Scientific Linux's stronger points is its stability. It achieves this however by lagging considerably in its suite of default packages, even those provided by the EPEL repository. This is all well and good until some enthusiastic coven of…
New worker nodes
We've added two new nodes, 213 and 214, to the 200 series. Both nodes have 8GB of RAM. This brings our cluster up to 136 cores.…
RAM upgrade and more worker nodes
The RAM of worker node 209 has been upgraded from 4 to 8GB and the node moved back to the 200 series. We will be deploying a few more 200 series and at least 1 more 400M series worker nodes…
Gluster wobble
So we've been making use of GlusterFS for a while now and generally it's been great. Gluster allows us to present unused space on a number of networked servers (our HPC worker nodes) as a single disk pool and make…
Disk space increase
Added an NFS mount to the Computational Biology JBOD. This will add 7+TB of disk space which should suffice until the ICTS cheap storage node arrives.…
New version of Crux availabe
We've upgraded our Crux tandem mass spectrometry analysis software from version 1.35 to 1.36 to take advantage of new functionality.…
Memory upgrade complete
The cluster memory upgrade seems to have gone OK, /scratch01 is remounted. Server 209 is still at 4GB as we only budgeted for 9 memory kits. Once we can confirm that the extra 4GB RAM
has made a difference for…
RAM upgrade
THE ICTS-HPC team will be upgrading the
RAM in several of the 200 series servers between 10 and 12 on Friday the
16th of September 2011. The implication is that the /scratch01 disk
area will be unavailable at this time.
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