Fixed issue relating to WMS
We have finally resolved the issue of the high load on the WMS. It was being caused by test jobs being submitted by Eumed Grid being unable to access a required CE and remaining in the WMS queue. The SAGrid…
New worker node
Added srvslngrd011.uct.ac.za to the cluster. This is the old CE which has now been virtualized. It's a HP BL460 HP blade
with 8 cpus and 16GB of RAM. This brings our current cluster up to 24
cpus, available to both…
New cluster head node
UCT CE and worker nodes are back in operation. We'll also be adding a new worker node shortly. The new version of gLite seems to return finished jobs much faster (seconds instead of minutes). Additionally the Site BDII for ZA-UCT-ICTS…
SEACOM back up again
According to SANREN the SEACOM link is back up and stable again.…
Catania application porting
The ICTS HPC team spent a month in Catania at the Institute for Nuclear Physics, working as part of a South African scientific application porting team. Once again the trip was supported by EPIKH and was extremely successful.
After the…
SEACOM failure
The SEACOM link has failed, the issue appears to be a cable break. SAGrid services are not currently available to our international counterparts.…
Africa ROC
A regional operating center (ROC) for Africa has finally been established:
The Africa Regional Operation Centre (Africa ROC) has been created as a
coordination and support point for all sites in the Continent wanting
to participate in the stimulating and…
UCT paper presented at IST Africa
Andrew Lewis, from UCT’s ICTS department, presented a paper, titled Considerations of User Engagement in New Site Designs at the recent IST-Africa 2010 conference held from 19 – 21 May at the Durban International Convention Centre. The paper, co written…
UI and CE upgrade
The following elements of the UCT Grid infrastructure have been upgraded:
UI - portal.sagrid.ac.za
CE and Worker Nodes
Upgrade from SL4, gLite 3.1 to SL5, gLite 3.2…