HiPerGator and associated systems are expected to remain operational throughout the storm. The systems can be used remotely as long as network connectivity remains intact. Response to support requests may be delayed and limited by potential closure of the campus… Read More
New GPU nodes
UF Research Computing has received twenty new GPU nodes to be put into production to work alongside the existing infrastructure of nVidia K80 nodes. The nodes each consist of two Intel Xeon Gold 6142 CPUs, 192GB of RAM, and 8x… Read More
Slurm scheduler news
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: Thanksgiving
Research Computing will operate with reduced support levels during the UF Thanksgiving Break from Thursday, November 28 through Friday, November 29, 2019. This is to allow the staff to take well-deserved time off for the holidays after working hard throughout… 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