HPC 2020 update
TL;DR; – The cluster head node operating system, firmware and storage system have all been patched\upgraded. – The wall time for ada has been increased from 72 to 170 hours – Matlab is now available on the cluster Cluster…
Update on BeegFS 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 …
User based CIFS read\write mounts
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>…