{"id":797,"date":"2013-11-28T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2013\/11\/28\/new-packages-and-node-ram-protection"},"modified":"2015-08-14T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:38:57","slug":"new-packages-and-node-ram-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2013\/11\/28\/new-packages-and-node-ram-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"New packages and node RAM protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The following packages have been installed on the Hex cluster:<\/div>\r\n<div>Ncbi-tools 2.2.28+, Blastall, Qiime 1.7.0, Pyfasta 0.5.1, Krona 2.4, Samtools 0.1.19, Amos 3.1.0, Bowtie 1.0.0, Bowtie2 2.1.0, BWA 0.7.5a, Cufflinks 2.1.1<\/div>\r\n<div>We've also implemented automatic node protection as some users' jobs are taking up lots of RAM. \u00a0When a worker node reaches 10% free RAM it will be taken offline until free RAM goes above 15% again. \u00a0Jobs on an offline node still run, offline means that no further jobs can be submitted.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>The following packages have been installed on the Hex cluster:<\/div>\n<div>Ncbi-tools 2.2.28+, Blastall, Qiime 1.7.0, Pyfasta 0.5.1, Krona 2.4, Samtools 0.1.19, Amos 3.1.0, Bowtie 1.0.0, Bowtie2 2.1.0, BWA 0.7.5a, Cufflinks 2.1.1<\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ve also implemented automatic node protection as some users&#8217; jobs are taking up lots of RAM. &nbsp;When a worker node reaches 10% free RAM it will be taken offline until free RAM goes above 15% again. &nbsp;Jobs on an offline node still run, offline means that no further jobs can be submitted.<\/div>\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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