Resources and Support for Users of the Supercomputing Wales services
For all users of HPC Wales systems, We are pleased to inform you that the first of the new Supercomputing Wales systems is now available for general access & use. This first system is the ‘Hawk’ system and is for the use of Cardiff and Bangor users only at this time. The second system, which […]
The following email was dispatched to active registered users on 7th March 2018: Dear Colleagues Following up from previous email updates (https://goo.gl/cy1uv3), we are now in the final stages of preparation to accommodate the Phase 1 system installation in mid-March 2018. Based on current timetables, Supercomputing Wales (SCW) and ARCCA staff will need to […]
The upgraded software stack that has been deployed over the last 8 months to HPCW systems has proven reliable and capable. Stack related issues have reduced substantially and system availability/user experience has improved as a result. It is therefore time to complete the transition to the new stack by upgrading the Cardiff HTC cluster to […]
On Sunday, we suffered an air conditioning failure at Swansea. The compute nodes have therefore been disabled at this time, whilst login and storage remains available. We apologise very sincerely for the inconvenience. Update @1200 Monday: We are awaiting site attendance by the cooling maintenance providers and will update later this afternoon when more news […]
This email was dispatched to active registered users on Monday 5th February: Dear User Following the completion of the HPC Wales project in July 2015, the Supercomputing Wales project is now fully established and operational. As part of this new project, the services currently offered under the HPC Wales banner (as deployed some 5 […]
As the now aging HPC Wales systems approach their end of life, it is increasingly important to perform certain software & hardware upgrades in order to sustain the appropriate levels of maintenance & support from our suppliers. A major upgrade of the scratch file systems at both the Cardiff and Swansea hub sites is now […]
The latest Update 4 version of the Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 has now been installed and made available to all users. This provides Intel Compilers, Intel MPI and Intel MKL as well as other less widely used software. This includes the latest bug fixes and optimizations from Intel, which may be relevant and beneficial […]
In order to replace the firewall at Bangor with a supported & upgraded device, there will be an outage of the Bangor cluster (only) on Friday 7th July from 1200 to 1500. We anticipate it won’t take this long to perform the work, and will return the system to use as soon as possible. Please […]
We will have a maintenance outage of the Swansea cluster on Thursday 11th May 2017 from 9am until 5pm. Any jobs running at the start of the outage will be terminated. We will try to retain queued jobs and allow them to launch once service is resumed. Several important pieces of work are scheduled: stage […]
We’re extending the current Swansea cluster outage by a few hours as we spent additional time earlier replacing hardware. We hope to be back by 10pm. Apologies for the inconvenience.