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Scheduling Downtimes for ada and taki clusters
To all HPCF Users: DoIT will be scheduling a series of downtimes over the next two months in order to provide system administrators with time to upgrade and improve various aspects of both the...
Posted: July 28, 2023, 5:34 PM
FA2023 Courses Created in Blackboard on July 25, 2023
Blackboard course shells for FA2023 were created on July 25, 2023. The Ultra Course Preview setting is enabled in FA2023 courses, which allows faculty to preview OR convert a new Original course...
Posted: July 26, 2023, 9:50 AM

Grade by student or question in Ultra courses for Aug update
New Google integration, customize image for learning modules
The August release reveals a new update for the Ultra grading system, enabling faculty to grade by question or student, or mix and match the approach. Additional updates to Ultra for August...
Posted: July 24, 2023, 12:47 PM

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

Request Tracker System Update - RT 5.0.4
We're pleased to share that Request Tracker (rt.umbc.edu) has been updated to the latest version of 5.0.4 on Wednesday, 7/19/2023. This update brings performance and quality of life improvements,...
Posted: July 21, 2023, 11:24 AM

Taki still having issues
There are ongoing issues with Slurm on Taki
There are still problems with Taki. I am currently working on rebooting the nodes across the cluster. If you see nodes marked as draining or drained, these will be rebooted. This is an ongoing...
Posted: July 7, 2023, 3:46 PM
Taki is again having issues
There is a problem with the Slurm scheduler on Taki
We are again experiencing issues with the Slurm scheduler on Taki. If you currently have jobs running on Taki, please be aware that you may need to rerun these jobs. It is very possible we may...
Posted: July 6, 2023, 1:03 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
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