Greetings DICC Users, We would like to inform you that there will be scheduled power maintenance in the Data Centre on 1 October 2025. All DICC infrastructures and services will be shutting down at 9.00 am in the morning to prevent any potential data loss. All users are advised to plan Read more
Dear DICC Users, Please be advised that the UM IT Department has scheduled network maintenance from 6:00 PM on August 29, 2025, to 6:00 PM on August 30, 2025. During this period, there may be network disturbances and instability. We recommend planning your tasks accordingly and saving your work frequently Read more
Dear DICC User, We are writing to inform you of an upcoming transition affecting the DICC Team, starting April 2025. While there will be no new features, updates, or support for the service until a new team takes over, the existing services will remain accessible for the foreseeable future. At Read more
Greetings HPC User, We would like to announce a new change on the HPC cluster, mainly on the resource allocation and usage for interactive jobs. Please bear with us that this will be a lengthy writeup. What is the problem? Over the past few weeks, we noticed that a lot Read more
Greetings HPC User, We are sorry to inform you that there was an oversight during the scheduled Scratch Storage cleanup where many files older than 90 days are deleted even if the files are actively in use. We are aware that some users are confused why their files were deleted even Read more
Greetings DICC User, We would like to update that the scheduled data centre power maintenance on 22 November 2024 has been completed. All DICC services are now back in normal operation. If you are unable to access any of the DICC services, please let us know by raising a ticket Read more
Greetings HPC Users, We are currently having issues with our virtualisation servers that are used to host all the supporting services in DICC. As some of the disks of the storage system for virtualisation servers died, much of the data had to be recreated. This process will take sometime, which means Read more
Greetings DICC User, We would like to inform you that there will be scheduled power maintenance in the Data Centre on 22 November 2024. All DICC infrastructures and services will be shutting down at 8am in the morning to prevent any potential data loss. All users are advised to plan your Read more
Greetings DICC User, We are currently experiencing network service disruption due to the transition of our ISP operator (MYREN). Internally, most network connections within the DICC network to non-Google platforms will be heavily affected as the traffic will be routed through other universities. Most users (mainly HPC users) will experience Read more
Greeting HPC users, As many of you might already be aware, we have a scratch cleanup policy enforced to purge data that is not being accessed for more than 90 days. The cleanup is to ensure that unused data is purged in order to provide sufficient scratch storage capacity for Read more