Greetings HPC Users, As mentioned in our earlier email regarding VPN connection, we would like to inform you that the VPN connection is now fully enforced in our HPC cluster, starting 1st of August 2022. All connections to the HPC cluster will now require VPN connection to be established. Direct SSH Read more
Greetings all HPC Users, Over the years, we have observed that many users try to request resources with bad habits or practice. Many users tried to ‘squeeze’ jobs into what resources are available at that moment. While this might allow jobs to start earlier, these habits however produce a lot Read more
Greetings all HPC Users, With regards to the email we sent earlier this month, we would like to gladly announce that the VPN testing phase has gone considerably smoothly, and we have managed to fix several reported issues on the VPN servers. So far, we have not encountered any more errors Read more
Greetings all HPC Users, Last month on 20 June 2022, we announced that we will be removing direct access to the HPC Login Node alongside the implementation of VPN in the near future. We have thus called for user testing on the VPN so that we could resolve all possible Read more
Greetings all HPC Users, We have made some minor adjustments to the HPC default job settings. All jobs by default will now set –hint=nomultithread when submitted, including all sbatch, salloc and srun jobs. Since more than 95% of the jobs run faster without multithreading enabled, we think it is better to Read more
Greetings all HPC Users, We will be removing direct access to the HPC Login Node soon alongside the implementation of VPN. Direct SSH into the HPC login node will no longer be possible once VPN is fully implemented and enforced. Here, we prepared some information that all HPC users would need Read more
Greeting all HPC Users, In conjunction with the enforcement of DICC HPC Service Guideline, we will be removing Amber14 and Amber18 from the managed application list in the HPC cluster. These mentioned Amber versions will no longer be available for use starting 12am, 08 of June, 2022. Amber20 will remain unchanged Read more
Greeting all HPC Users, We would like to announce that the first version of DICC HPC Service Guideline is now available and accessible from the DICC website, or through this link. The purpose of the HPC Service Guideline is to describe the scope of services provided by DICC, to the UM research communities. The Read more
Ever since we set up the HPC cluster in 2015, our cluster has been using the Environment Modules system in managing all the applications and modules in the system. The platform was running fine since the first day of implementation with some occasional hiccups due to misconfiguration, but it falls Read more
Dear all HPC Users, There will be scheduled maintenance on 11 May 2022, 7.00am to perform system update and critical fixes. Access to the HPC cluster will be temporarily unavailable during the maintenance, and the maintenance is expected to complete within an hour. All running jobs should not be affected and will Read more