Notices and News of NCI National Facility
| Current issues |
Saturday March 13, 2010, 7:30pm: The merge of the first and second stages of vayu is now sufficiently complete to allow the production service to resume. vayu has now grown to about 9000 cpus and will grow by a further 1500 cpus next week and another 1500 in the coming weeks. There should be no more noticeable downtimes. Apologies for the delay.
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Latest News
| 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 | Submission of 2009 Annual Reports is due by 25 May 2010.
Receipt of your report as soon as possible and adherence to the prescribed format will be greatly appreciated. If you this deadline is not possible or will cause you undue stress, please contact to arrange an alternative date. |
| 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 December 2007. See below for previous newsletters. |
| Archived Mails | Archive of previous emails broadcast to users of the facility. |
Conferences, Workshops and Meetings
| EResearch 2009 | eResearch Australasia 2009 will be held 9 - 13 November in Sydney at the beachfront Novotel Manly Pacific. |
| SC09 | Supercomputin 09 to be held in Portland, Oregon Nov 14-20 |
Old News Items
| Old Newsletters | October 2006 Newsletter |
| New SGI AC system available | All accounts from the SC/LC have now been enabled on the Altix system ac.apac.edu.au. More details regarding using the system and the transfer of files has been sent to all users. A copy can be found here and other information in the newsletters below. |
| Alphaserver SC service ended 23 June | The AlphaServer SC was decommissioned at 12 noon on 23 June. A copy of detailed information mailed out to all users can be found here. |
| APAC NF New System Announced | APAC announced on 17 February that SGI is the contracted supplier of the new National Facility system to replace the Alphaserver SC. The email sent to users is at the link to the left. |
| New Peak System June 2004 |
The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing has issued a request for proposals for the supply of a peak computing system and associated services valued at $12.5M to replace the Alphaserver SC and GS. The new system is expected to be installed early next year and is expected to be considerably more powerful than the current systems. |
| /massdata unmounted 24 June 2002 |
The /massdata filesystem has been permanently unmounted. Access to massdata directories is solely by utility commands to ensure efficient usage. Please start using the utilities mdss, netcp, netmv and the copyq NOW (see man pages or userguide webpage). Please report any problems with mdss, netcp and netmv. |