Taki Users: This coming Tuesday (September 24, 2019), we will be rebooting the user nodes on taki. These reboots will update some of our software modules on the user nodes, allowing users to...
Taki Users: Today (Aug 27, 2019) at 5pm, we brought taki down to install some maintenance daemons. At this point (5:20p), taki is back online and no jobs should have been affected. As...
Community building for users of the HPCF cluster taki
The class MATH 627 Introduction to Parallel Computing introduces the current HPCF cluster taki and teaches parallel computing using it. Starting with an efficient introduction to the Linux...
Earlier this week we upgraded slurm (our scheduling software) to try and fix several bugs that had been identified over the past few weeks through working with our support vendor. This upgrade...
Taki Users: We are seeing many jobs stuck in a pending or "PD" state in slurm. The reason being given by slurm is "launch failed requeued held". This is slurm's way of telling us that...
Taki will go down after business hours tomorrow August 20, 2019. The downtime is expected to run from 5p-7p. Scheduled jobs will be lost. Please be sure to save or otherwise checkpoint all...
Taki Users: After this weekend's unscheduled downtime, much of the cluster is back in working order. Two Important Updates: 1) We took advantage of the unscheduled downtime to make an...
Taki Users: Earlier today (Sunday, August 18) we noticed many nodes (nearly all) become unavailable. We are currently working to bring these nodes back up and identify the original issue....
Access to the taki cluster will be restricted tomorrow from 5-7pm. Please make every attempt to finish jobs before 5pm. Any progress with jobs after 5pm will be lost.
1. For purposes of workflow management, note that the HPCF may have downtime scheduled every Tuesday from 5p-9p. In the event that downtime is scheduled: a posting on this page will be made....