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Research cluster unavailable 5-8 Aug

first posted: Wed 24 Jul 2013, 4:04pm. Last updated: Wed 24 Jul 2013, 4:05pm

The High Performance Computing cluster will be unavailable between Monday 5 and Thursday 8 August inclusive while we carry out maintenance work.

We will be adding newly purchased nodes for Engineering & Informatics, Physics and Life Sciences and upgrading the cluster to run under Scientific Linux 6.4.

In preparation for this work, we need to replace the current apollo login node with a new server. We intend to do this work this evening, Wednesday 24 July. Current users will be able to login to the cluster via feynman.hpc.susx.ac.uk whilst this work is ongoing, so you will still have access to the cluster whilst the login node is replaced and everything should continue to work as it would on apollo. Interactive jobs that are running on apollo will be shut down at 8pm this evening.

The work has been moved forward by one week to avoid any chance of disruption to computing services during the clearing process later in August.