There were significant upgrades to the Bugaboo and Orcinus WestGrid facilities during the latter half of 2011.  In December a major new cluster arrived at the University of Calgary (more than 7000 cores, including 60 compute nodes with 3 general-purpose graphics processing units each).  It will be made available earlier in the New Year.  The decision whether this will be an extension to the Lattice cluster or given a separate name has not been finalized.  For now, details of the cluster are given in the Lattice QuickStart Guide.  A large (16 TB) shared-memory system is being installed this month at the University of Edmonton. See the Hungabee QuickStart Guide for more information.

Updated 2011-12-20.

It was previously reported that a system upgrade on the Terminus cluster would be scheduled during the week of December 7, depending on the results of a similar upgrade to the WestGrid Matrix cluster.  The Matrix upgrade took longer than expected, so, the Terminus upgrade will be deferred until the New Year (2010).

A scheduling reservation will be put in place that will prevent jobs from starting if the specified time would extend into the maintenance period.  If there are jobs you can fit in during the days leading up to the shutdown by successively reducing the requested run time to fit the shrinking window of opportunity, please do so.

If there are any jobs still running at the time of the maintenance shutdown, they will be killed.

Jobs that are in the input queue at the time of the system shutdown should be handled normally by the batch scheduling software when the system is brought back up after the upgrade.

Please direct any questions to support [at] hpc [dot] ucalgary [dot] ca .

UC IT has purchased a 16-processor computer with 128 GB of RAM for use by U of C researchers.  To start a discussion of whether this machine is appropriate for your work, please send a short description of your computing requirements to support [at] hpc [dot] ucalgary [dot] ca.