Current news...

Goodbye SCAN 3, hello SCAN 4

Announcing the next stage in the evolution of the SCAN, SCAN 4 has been launched becoming fully operational on Tuesday, April 12th. Running on entirely new hardware, it offers users more disk space for files with improved reliability and the latest version of FreeBSD 8.2. More details

Older news items:

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