As some may know, UF Research Computing has been having some issues with the Slurm scheduler on the cluster. The problem appears to stem with a flaw in the way Slurm handles prologue scripting. Last week we had instituted a… Read More
Brief Network Outage June 30th
UFIT staff will perform maintenance for Network Services (East Campus Datacenter) beginning on Sunday, June 30th at 6:00 AM. In preparation for upcoming network equipment upgrades, live network traffic will be moved to alternate paths. During this activity, some external/Internet… Read More
Campus Backup / Archive update
Starting July 1, 2019 the pricing for TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) backup/archive will be updated and simplified.
HiPerGator Maintenenace Outage 5/6-5/9
Research Computing is planning a complete HiPerGator service outage to perform maintenance starting Monday, May 6, 2019 at 8:00am and ending Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 8:00pm.
Qumulo Storage for Home Areas
UF Research Computing has recently taken delivery of a new Qumulo storage system to replace the aging Nexenta system that is currently being used. This file system will be used to house files and directories in user’s home areas, as… Read More
Reduced Support Levels: Winter Break
Research Computing will operate with reduced support levels during the UF Winter Break from Monday, December 17, 2018 through Friday, January 4, 2019. This is to allow the staff to take well-deserved time off for the holidays after working hard… Read More
HiPerGator Maintenance 9/30
Sunday, September 30th, 9AM-1PM EST: HiPerGator job scheduling services will be paused during this maintenance window to repair a redundancy issue in a storage enclosure. 5% of the /ufrc storage arrays will be offline during the maintenance. Job loss is… Read More
UFRC Galaxy instance upgrade, data transfer node retirement (dtn1)
The UFRC instance of Galaxy will be upgraded to the latest version during the week of May 1st 2018. This upgrade will add many features, but will also necessitate updating saved workflows as tool versions will change, some old tools… Read More
Upgraded Login Nodes and Load Balancer Infrastructure
The UFRC team is pleased to announce the availability of significant upgrades to our load balancer infrastructure and login node service, which will go into production on the morning of Monday April 9. New ssh logins will automatically be routed… Read More
First Annual Data Symposium: March 19
The first annual Data Symposium will be held March 19, 2018, with the topic of “Enabling Data Reproducibility and Sustainability.” Where: Smathers Library (East), Room 100 When: March 19, 2018 Registration Fee: $95 faculty; $45 students Registration Deadline: March 13,… Read More