Notices and News of NCI National Facility
| Scheduled downtime |
XE scheduled downtime is over - 2pm Aug 2nd to ~6pm Aug 3rd The major software updates went quite well but unfortunately due to an access configuration error, many queued jobs failed to start after the downtime. Apologies. |
Latest News
| Vayu build complete. 6 April 2010 |
The final two racks of the Sun/Oracle Vayu system have been put into production today. This brings vayu to its full complement of over 11900 cpus or even 140 TFlops peak computational capacity. |
| Vayu second stage in production. 11-12 March 2010 |
The second stage of the Sun/Oracle Vayu system is being merged and will be in production from Friday. The new Vayu will be a ~7x increase in capacity over the first stage. |
| Vayu increased in capacity 12 Feb 2010 |
The first stage of the new Sun Constellation cluster, vayu, was doubled in capacity today. See the following email to users for further details on the system status. |
| Interim Sun System Accepted 18 Sept 2009 |
The first stage of the new Sun Constellation cluster, vayu, has passed acceptance and is now in production. |
| Sun Hardware Arrives 17 July 2009 |
The crates containing the first stage of the
new Sun hardware have arrived. The system will be installed starting 22 July 2009.
It will take a few weeks for installation of the Sun hardware and
the ANU software before acceptance testing commences. We expect the system
to be available to users in the second half on September. For more information see this email. |
Current Notices
| System Downtimes | For details of all previous downtimes on a particular system, follow the links: |
| Call for 2009 Annual Reports | The call for annual reports on 2009 work has been delayed. It is yet to be decided if the format of the reports will be changed. An email of the call will be sent when the submission form is available and the deadline has been set. |
| Log in Messages (motd) |
The current messages of the day of NCI National Facility computers, as seen when logging in, including notices and current useful tips. |
| Software Updates | List of the latest software updates on the NCI National Facility systems. |
| MAS Grants | Grants Information for the present and past years. The grants for each 3 month quarter are available at 0000hrs on the first day of the new quarter. |
| Call for MAS applications 04 October 2010 |
The deadline for applications of time for Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 is 29 Oct 2010. |
| Latest Newsletter | Newsletter for July 2010. |
| Previous News | Older newsletters and news bulletins. |
| Archived Mails | Archive of previous emails broadcast to users of the facility. |
Conferences, Workshops and Meetings
| eResearch Australasia 2010 | eResearch Australasia 2010 will be held 8 - 12 November at the RACV Royal Pines on Queensland’s Gold Coast. |
| SC10 | Supercomputing 10 to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on Nov 13-19 |