Current news...

Older news items:

April 7th: Magma software upgraded to version 2.25-4

March 17th: a new 8 card GPU server installed

March 2nd: another backup server added

February 28th: internal network expansion, ma-backup4 and GPU servers coming soon

February 6th: more large compute servers for Stats

November 1st: NextGen is shutting down on November 1st in readiness for relocation

September 29th: matlab2018 queue has now been discontinued on the NextGen cluster

August 24th: matlab2018 queue to be discontinued on the NextGen cluster

August 14th: more servers for Stats, remote monitoring upgrades, better system status reporting and more power supplies

June 23rd: more servers in the server room, expanded Bazooka Hadoop cluster now available for use

May 29th: R Shiny server memory replaced & remote management added

April 12th: NextGen cluster Maple 2019 upgrade completed

March 16th: Planned Bazooka Hadoop cluster upgrade, reorganisation of backup servers

February 19th: ma-offsite2 now online

January 19th: Matlab 2018b upgrade ongoing

December 14th: Matlab upgrade to version R2018b started, Stats section compute & storage enhancements completed, silos3 and 4 introduced

September 18th: more local storage for Stats modal server and new PostgreSQL database server launched

August 29th: new 'du' command options, cluster R upgrade and ma-backup3

July 2nd: nvidia3 now has two GPU cards

May 15th: Early summer update

March 29th: Easter update

March 24th: spring update

March 10th: late winter update

December 15th: pre-Christmas update

November 22nd: late November update

October 8th: start of 2017/2018 academic year update

2017: Midsummer's Day update

June 16th, 2017: mid-June update

June 2nd, 2017: Early summer update

April 20th, 2017: Spring update 2

March 22nd, 2017: Early spring update

March 10th, 2017: Winter update 2

February 22nd, 2017: Winter update

November 2nd, 2016: Autumn update

October 21st, 2016: Late summer update 2

October 14th, 2016: Late summer update

February 19th, 2016: Winter update

December 11th, 2015: Autumn update

September 14th, 2015: Late summer update 2

May 2nd, 2015: Spring update 2

April 26th, 2015: Spring update

November 11th, 2014: Autumn update

September 17th, 2014: Summer update 2

July 17th, 2014: Summer update

March 15th, 2014: Spring update

November 2nd, 2013: Summer update

May 24th, 2013: Spring update

January 23rd, 2013: Happy New Year!

November 22nd, 2012: No news is good news...

November 17th, 2011: A revamp for the Maths SSH gateways

September 7th, 2011: Failed systems under repair

August 14th, 2011: Introducing calculus, a new NFS home directory server for research users

July 19th, 2011: a new staging server for the compute cluster

July 19th, 2011: A new Matlab queue and improved queue documentation

June 30th, 2011: Updated laptop backup scripts

June 18th, 2011: More storage for the silo...

June 16th, 2011: Yet more storage for the SCAN...

June 10th, 2011: 3 new nodes added to the Maths compute cluster

May 21st, 2011: Announcing SCAN large storage and subversion (SVN) servers

May 26th, 2011: Reporting missing scratch disk on macomp01

May 21st, 2011: Announcing completion of silo upgrades

May 16th, 2011: Announcing upgrades for silo

April 14th, 2011: Goodbye SCAN 3, hello SCAN 4

March 26th, 2011: quickstart guide to using the Torque/Maui cluster job queueing system

March 9th, 2011: automatic laptop backup/sync service, new collaboration systems launched

May 20th, 2010: Scratch disks are now available on all macomp and mablad compute cluster systems

March 11th, 2010: Introduing job queueing on the Fünf Gruppe compute cluster

October 16th, 2008: Introduing the Fünf Gruppe compute cluster

June 18th, 2008: German City compute farm now expanded to 22 machines

February 7th, 2008: new applications on the Linux apps server, unclutter your desktop

November 13th, 2007: aragon and cathedral now general access computers, networked Linux Matlab installation upgraded to R2007a

September 14th, 2007: Problems with sending outgoing mail for UNIX & Linux users

July 23rd, 2007: SCAN available full-time over the summer vacation, closure of Imperial's Usenet news server

May 15th, 2007: Temporary SCAN suspension, closure of the Maths Physics computer room, new research computing facilities

January 14th, 2005: Exchange mail server upgrade, spam filtering with pine and various other enhancements