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Math 447/627 Introduction to Parallel Computing

Fall 2023, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 01:00-02:15 pm

Dear HPCF Users, I wanted to make sure you knew that I am offering Math 447/627 Introduction to Parallel Computing this fall again. It has both an undergraduate and graduate level. The...

Posted: July 23, 2023, 10:27 PM

Resume use of taki

To all taki users, Users can begin normal use of the taki cluster environment. Running jobs at the start of the downtime were unaffected. Roy Prouty UMBC HPCF System Administrator

Posted: July 3, 2023, 1:45 PM

Unscheduled Downtime of taki cluster

To all taki users, System administrators are aware of issues with SLURM. At present, SLURM is not responding as expected to allocation requests and running jobs cannot be monitored. Running...

Posted: July 1, 2023, 11:57 AM

Sunsetting of 2013 hardware on taki

To all taki users, tl;dr: Equipment from 2013 (both the batch and gpu partitions) will be disabled on August 15, 2023. These Dell PowerEdge R620 & R720 nodes were purchased in 2013 as...

Posted: June 28, 2023, 11:59 AM

HPCF Unscheduled Downtime: Cooling Issue

To all taki Users At 16:55, large portions of the taki cluster were abruptly taken offline by administrators to help with an unexpected chiller failure in the data center.  This...

Posted: June 2, 2023, 5:10 PM