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Some Jobs Failing to Run

Taki Users: We are seeing many jobs stuck in a pending or "PD" state in slurm. The reason being given by slurm is "launch failed requeued held". This is slurm's way of telling us that...

Posted: August 21, 2019, 12:37 PM

FA2019 Instructional Technology Update

UMBC Blackboard Update is provided by the Division of Information Technology for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions or need help, please consult the Blackboard Help FAQs or...

Posted: August 20, 2019, 2:00 PM

DoIT Expands Campus Live Streaming

VPC partnership continues students & alums as “crew"

While it’s not the same as attending in person, if you enjoy watching UMBC basketball or Commencement live online, soon you might also be able to watch other major campus events in the same way....

Posted: August 20, 2019, 1:05 PM

Scheduled Downtime

Taki will go down after business hours tomorrow August 20, 2019. The downtime is expected to run from 5p-7p. Scheduled jobs will be lost. Please be sure to save or otherwise checkpoint all...

Posted: August 19, 2019, 2:52 PM

Slurm Scripts and 2013 GPUs

Taki Users: After this weekend's unscheduled downtime, much of the cluster is back in working order. Two Important Updates: 1) We took advantage of the unscheduled downtime to make an...

Posted: August 19, 2019, 9:16 AM