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Slurm Slow to Respond on Taki

Good morning, We are aware that slurm commands such as squeue and sacct are running slowly or even timing-out this morning. We are investigating the issue. Slurm documentation seems to indicate...

Posted: November 25, 2019, 8:12 AM

11-15-2019 5:00 pm Downtime for RT

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, DoIT's Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 15th between 5:00pm-6:00pm for the RT system....

Posted: November 13, 2019, 10:00 AM

Reboot of taki-usr1

Good morning! Due to memory consumption on the taki login node, `taki-usr1`, we are rebooting the node to clear associated errors. When free memory on one of our machines drops below a...

Posted: November 13, 2019, 9:32 AM

End of Semester Sprint Offers Customized Consults to Faculty

Three Sprints. One Day. Choose your time & topic.

The end of semester is a busy time of year for everyone, especially faculty. Instructional Technology will host three 90-minute sprint sessions on Wednesday, December 11, 2019 for faculty to...

Posted: November 11, 2019, 2:46 PM

Quarterly patching downtime on 11/15/2019 & 11/16/2019

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 15th and Saturday, November 16th.  While many of...

Posted: November 6, 2019, 10:02 AM