We are very happy to announce that the Rocket HPC service is NOW LIVE!
This means:
- project PIs can now add more members to their groups. Instructions are available at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/itservice/research/hpc/hpcmembership/
- the system will no longer be subject to interruptions and changes at short notice
- queries and requests will be handled as service desk tickets.
Many thanks to everyone who has filled in detailed project registrations, worked with us to solve teething problems and/or contributed feedback on the service. We are still working to improve the service, and recent updates include:
– Matlab is now available, including the parallel toolbox that permits multi-threaded jobs and other standard toolboxes. The Matlab Distributed Computing Server is not available.
– you may now have up to 10,000 ‘active’ jobs (queued, running or recently finished) in SLURM, and array jobs can contain up to 10,000 elements (0-9999).
– temporary storage on /scratch is now usable on all nodes and $TMPDIR is set to this location.
For projects that are waiting for their registration to be completed: we are completing registrations when we can and most delays are related to software requests. Please bear with us, we know you are waiting.
As always, most of the information about Rocket is on the HPC web pages at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/itservice/research/hpc/ . Please get in touch via the service desk if you have any other queries.