storage

Cluster updates

hardware, storage
Accounts and acknowledgements If you no longer require your UCT HPC account, or if you have recently submitted a thesis or paper acknowledging usage of the cluster, please let us know. Core reservations When requesting resources please do not oversubscribe …
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Update on BeegFS storage

BeeGFS, hpc, storage
The disk cluster is configured and running. Four Dell R740DX servers each with a combination of twelve 10TB NLSAS and two 240GB SSD drives are providing a 345TB scratch volume, an 8TB /home volume and a 4TB software volume. Each …
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User based CIFS read\write mounts

hpc, storage
First you need to ensure that setuid root is set on the CIFS mount executable: chmod u+s /sbin/mount.cifs In order for a user to mount a CIFS share it must be in the /etc/fstab file in the following format: //researchdata.uct.ac.za/<MYDISK>…
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