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

Andy Thomas

Research Computing Manager, Department of Mathematics

last updated: 16.10.2019