Greeting all HPC Users, There will be a scheduled HPC maintenance on 26 November 2022, 12am to perform storage upgrade. HPC resources access is not guaranteed during the maintenance period. Users are advised to plan their work accordingly. Current NFS Home Storage will be upgraded to new Ceph Home Storage Read more
Greeting HPC Users, We are pleased to announce that DICC Single Sign On Service service is now publicly available. The page can be accessed at https://sso.dicc.um.edu.my/ with and without VPN connection. Why is the DICC SSO Service introduced? Since only one account is required to access all kinds of services hosted in Read more
Greeting HPC Users, It has been awhile since our last email for news and updates in the HPC cluster. We would like to give brief and short updates on what happened in the past few months, and what to expect in the near future. Maximum Allowed Wall Time Per Job Read more
Greeting all HPC Users, In the past few months, we noticed that many jobs have been pending for too long due to the 14 days maximum wall time per job. This means that if the previous jobs are to run until finish, all the pending jobs will need to wait Read more
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