Current news...

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

The Maths NextGen compute cluster will be shut down on November 1st prior to being dismantled and moved to another part of ICT's data centre in the City & Guilds building. It is exected to be back up and running within 1 week and our apologies for the inconvenience. More information

Older news items:

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