Latest news for the Statistics section's compute systems

Operating system upgrades for the M-series machines

Following a one-off upgrade of model to Ubuntu 20.04 in June to provide python 3.10, madul and midal have since been upgraded in the same way on August 7th. medial & modal will be upgraded also at a future date although both systems are currently in heavy use at the moment.

Stats Fallas HPC updated

The Stats Fallas HPC has been available since January of this year with a minimum of 24 processors and a large amount of local storage. Howvere, until recently it has been little-used so the eight compute nodes stats01-08 have remained powered off. In early August these were powered back on and updated with the latest available O/S updates, R packages and python3 packages from the PyPi repository before being shut down again due to the imminent heatwave. However they are easy to power up again if needed - please do use this cluster, which replaces the old F-series (festival, fiesta, fira, etc) stand-alone machines if you can; documentation can be found here.

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