Monthly Archives for December 2016


Cardiff In Service & New Beta File Access Capability

Following yesterday’s planned maintenance, all systems have now returned to normal operation. We also have a new file access capability in beta status. Connecting via SFTP/SCP to scp.hpcwales.co.uk (aka sftp.hpcwales.co.uk) now enables access to all site home and scratch directories direct from outside the HPCW network. The following tables lists the locations of each: $USER […]


Cardiff Scheduled Outage – Tuesday 13th December 9am – 5pm

There will be a scheduled outage of all HPC Wales Cardiff systems on Tuesday 13th December 2016 from 9am. This will, therefore, cause outage of the Cardiff HTC and Sandy Bridge clusters, plus also the Access Nodes (login.hpcwales.co.uk) and File Transfer service (scp.hpcwales.co.uk / sftp.hpcwales.co.uk). Any jobs running at the start of the outage will […]