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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

Ultra update features tracking meter, resize images in July

Improved file deletion, complete/incomplete schema, and more

The July update for Ultra provides updates to assessment and grading, content delivery, and course management, offering new functionality and quality of life improvements for faculty and...

Posted: June 28, 2023, 8:35 AM

Concerning Job Scams

Holidays and long weekends attempt to catch users off guard

Over the weekend the Division of Information Technology has gotten reports of several job scams sent to users by email. These scams promise good pay for minimal effort, usually at home on your own...

Posted: June 20, 2023, 4:33 PM