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MATH 627 Parallel Computing class in Fall 2019

Community building for users of the HPCF cluster taki

The class MATH 627 Introduction to Parallel Computing introduces the current HPCF cluster taki and teaches parallel computing using it. Starting with an efficient introduction to the Linux...

Posted: August 25, 2019, 9:41 AM

Status of Taki and update on reported issues

Earlier this week we upgraded slurm (our scheduling software) to try and fix several bugs that had been identified over the past few weeks through working with our support vendor. This upgrade...

Posted: August 22, 2019, 8:37 PM

Blackboard LTI Integrations not Working with Safari

Please use a browser other than Safari to access Blackboard!

As noted in this Known Issue FAQ, recent updates to the Safari web browser are preventing access to LTI content inside any Learning Management System (LMS) including Blackboard. The issue stems...

Posted: August 22, 2019, 2:02 PM

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