Current news...

A new Matlab queue and improved queue documentation

A new experimental queue has been added to the Torque/Maui cluster job queueing system specifically to support parallelised Matlab jobs. With this queue, you can run a single Matlab job that will in turn use up to 8 processor cores at runtime. Also, documentation on the three available queues has been much improved. More...

Older news items:

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