Current news...

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

There is not a great deal to report at the moment. The Maths compute cluster moves and upgrades that were scheduled to take place during August and September were only partially completed owing to a series of problems and delays entirely beyond our control. Currently, two-thirds of the cluster comprising the older 24 nodes has been relocated to a new server room, rebuilt/updated and relaunched as the Next Generation Maths compute cluster, supporting the cluster's standard queues only at present.

The 12 compute nodes and the two test & development nodes in the existing 'old' cluster are still operational as before, providing the bulk of the cluster computing power as well as the higher-spec nodes supporting the larger/specialist job queues but cannot now be moved or upgraded until funds become available to complete an additional user storage project. Even when (if) this does happen, a partial cluster shutdown and stoppage of all queues except the standard queue will be necessary to move equipment and implement the changes. This should have occurred in August and with the current heavy usage of the 'old' cluster, it is now difficult at this stage to see when this can be done.

Older news items:

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