File server’s OS update

Update (26.10.2018, 16:22 EEST): The OS update of the file server has been completed. The workload manager queues are reinstated and you may now submit jobs again. Thank you for the consideration.

Dear users,

This Friday (26.10.18) we will be pushing an OS updated on Nestum’s file server. Due to the update, the machine will be unavailable between 10:00 and 22:00 EEST (Bulgarian Time). Furthermore, the long.p partition in Slurm is to be switched offline in order to prevent data loss on the day of the update. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Head of HPC Lab gives a talk at the 7th National Crystallographic Symposium

Seventh National Crystallographic Symposium with International Participation
3-5 October 2018
Sofia, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy  

Title:”SIZE-DEPENDENT EMERGENCE OF CRYSTALINITY IN MOLECULAR CLUSTERS
Date: 4th of October 2018
Time: 11:30-12:10
Place: Auditorium
Speaker: Prof. Ana Proykova, Head of HPC Lab

The links provided point to the programme of the symposium and to the talk itself, respectively.

Program of events for the 28th of September

Talk: Application of HPC facilities to Soft Matter
Speaker: Dr. Sergio Madurga, Department of Material Science and Physical Chemistry, University of Barcelona
within the project BG05M2OP001-1.001-0004/28.02.2018 (2018-20203) UNITe
Location: Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics – 2nd floor,Main Council Hall, 5 James Bourchier Blvd. Sofia-1164
Time: 13:30
Date:28.09.2018
HPC laboratory is an Associated Partner of the UNITe

28.09.2018
Researchers night at the Sofia tech Park
Mr. Ivo Iliev presents the HPC lab to the visitors with the help of Ms. Dessislava Dimova, Mr. Mihail Enimanev, Mr. Flavio Bayramovski,
Location: Exhibition area of the Sofia tech park
Time: 17:30 – 22:00

28.09.2018
Researchers night at the Sofia tech Park
Prof. Proykova talk: High Performance Computing – what is this for?
Location: Exhibition area of the Sofia tech park
Time:18:30-19:10

Course on HPC

Talk on 5th of September 2018
Title: OS for parallel cluster – choices, application

Speaker: Dr. Hristo Iliev

Acknowledgment: Project “Parallel computations of complex systems and processes” funded by the R&D&I at the HPC laboratory, Sofia Tech Park

You can download the slides from the presentation here.

Emergency shutdown

Due to an unexpected aggregate load, Nestum was switched offline this morning (around 10 AM local time). Although no data or job progress was lost, the machine will operate on reduced capacity until we are sure that the issue is resolved.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Partitions back online

The “medium” and “long” partitions are back online, and you can submit jobs onto them. Unfortunately, a problem was detected on compute node cn014 and we’ve removed it from the queue until the situation is resolved.

Water supply maintenance

Dear users,

We have disabled the “medium” and “long” SLURM partitions, meaning that submitting jobs on those partitions is temporarily unavailable. We have done this due to the fact that tomorrow, 09.08.2018, the water supply to Sofia TechPark will be cut because of repairs. This might interfere with the air conditioning in the server room, so we have taken steps to mitigate the possible effects of overheating. The partitions will be available again at 9 pm tomorrow.