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, 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 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
Dear HPC Users, We have recently redesigned some of the script modules located in the HPC login node (umhpc). These modules now have an color-coded interface that is much easier to read. The following are some screenshots of all the redesigned modules: Message of the Day (Login Banner) Lustre Cleanup Read more