Aquila

To update everyone on the condition of the /data storage area. I have some good news!​ We received the new power supply from ClusterVision for the storage server, after fitting the new supply we discovered that the mainboard has also...

The compute nodes on the Aquila HPC system will be powered down on 30th September 2015, the process starts at midday.  As well as powering down the compute nodes, we will also be disabling the scheduler system and turning off...

On the 30th June the storage server providing /apps and /data lost power and resulted in the Aquila system becoming unresponsive. This issue was fixed by reseating the power supply unit on the storage node and the storage node boot...

Aquila is available and stable, 5.30pm 02 July 2015.  Aquila is running at reduced capacity with 76 standard nodes and the two gpu nodes. Problem summary Original problem on Tuesday, 30 June 2015, was with a power supply on one of...

The Aquila culster is still unavailable, while problems are investigated by the HPC team.

Essential maintenance work will be performed on Aquila's home area storage on 7th July 2015, between 7-9am. While this work is being carried out Aquila will not be available or accessible. All users are required to log out before 8pm...

Aquila is down for maintenance due to a master node failure and issues with fail-over consequently effecting job execution. Service will resume by Friday (Nov 21) morning.

The Aquila HPC cluster will be unavailable from 16:30 on Monday 9th June until the morning of 10th June, while essential maintenance is carried out on the /home area.

The storage server which provides the /home area for the Aquila HPC has been experiencing some technical issues and as a result the /home area will be experiencing a degraded performance for the time being. To rectify the issues the...

Adaptive Computing have spent three 11-hour days assisting me with the installation and configuration of the new scheduling system on the Aquila HPC facility. During these days we have made a lot of progress and resolved several unforeseen issues. However...