New cluster announcement¶
We are pleased to announce that the new cluster is available for general use. This has been a large project, involving the following:
- Upgraded storage - new storage controllers and extra 1PB of storage
- Cluster Operating System upgrade - now running CentOS7.3
- Job scheduler upgrade - now running Univa Grid Engine 8.5.1 -
- Application rebuilds for CentOS7
- New nxv nodes- including infiniband-connected nodes for parallel jobs
- GPU nodes- 4 new nxg nodes with Nvidia Tesla K80 for gaining substantial performance increase from gpu-enabled applications
- Singularity containers - utilise Linux containers to encapsulate your software for portable and reproducible science
- Documentation site rewrite
- Stats site has been written for the new cluster.