{"id":763,"date":"2014-04-07T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2014\/04\/07\/advance-notification-of-downtime"},"modified":"2015-08-14T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:33:55","slug":"advance-notification-of-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2014\/04\/07\/advance-notification-of-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance notification of downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Advance notification of downtime, June 2014:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nPlease be aware that the ICTS HPC clusters (Hex, Hpc and Grid) will be\r\nshut down on the weekend of the 21-22 June 2014 for data center\r\nmaintenance.\u00a0 All jobs must be stopped or check pointed by the evening\r\nof Friday 20 June 2014.\u00a0 We hope to have the clusters back up by at\r\nleast the morning of Monday the 23 June.\r\n\r\n<strong>Request for citations:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAll users are reminded that as part of the agreement of usage the ICTS\r\ncluster should be acknowledged in any thesis or paper where work\r\ncomputed on the clusters is referenced, as per:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hex.uct.ac.za\/Citations.html\">http:\/\/hex.uct.ac.za\/Citations.html<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Space on \/home and \/scratch:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nUsers are requested to clean up unwanted files.\u00a0 As space is at a\r\npremium on the cluster we'd like to keep the thresholds for data usage\r\nunder 20GB per user on \/home\/MyUsername.\u00a0 Large data sets should be\r\nmoved to \/scratch.\u00a0 To find out how much space you are using run the\r\nfollowing command in your \/home top level folder:\r\n\r\ndu\u00a0 .\u00a0 -sh\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (du space dot space minus sh)\r\n\r\n<strong>Running of jobs:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nUsers are also asked not to run software packages directly on the head\r\nnode as this will result in excessive load on the head node.\u00a0 All\r\ncomputational work must be submitted as part of a job via the qsub\r\ncommand.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Advance notification of downtime, June 2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please be aware that the ICTS HPC clusters (Hex, Hpc and Grid) will be<br \/>\nshut down on the weekend of the 21-22 June 2014 for data center<br \/>\nmaintenance.&nbsp; All jobs must be stopped or check pointed by the evening<br \/>\nof Friday 20 June 2014.&nbsp; We hope to have the clusters back up by at<br \/>\nleast the morning of Monday the 23 June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Request for citations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All users are reminded that as part of the agreement of usage the ICTS<br \/>\ncluster should be acknowledged in any thesis or paper where work<br \/>\ncomputed on the clusters is referenced, as per:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hex.uct.ac.za\/Citations.html\">http:\/\/hex.uct.ac.za\/Citations.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Space on \/home and \/scratch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users are requested to clean up unwanted files.&nbsp; As space is at a<br \/>\npremium on the cluster we&#8217;d like to keep the thresholds for data usage<br \/>\nunder 20GB per user on \/home\/MyUsername.&nbsp; Large data sets should be<br \/>\nmoved to \/scratch.&nbsp; To find out how much space you are using run the<br \/>\nfollowing command in your \/home top level folder:<\/p>\n<p>du&nbsp; .&nbsp; -sh&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (du space dot space minus sh)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Running of jobs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users are also asked not to run software packages directly on the head<br \/>\nnode as this will result in excessive load on the head node.&nbsp; All<br \/>\ncomputational work must be submitted as part of a job via the qsub<br \/>\ncommand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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