Message of the Day
The current status of each site/ service that we support, please check back here for new announcements.
Daresbury
MPI issues: OpenMPI has been reported to fail on some applications. We've therefore also now installed MPICH-2-1.2.1, do module avail to see what is available. See http://www.nw-grid.ac.uk/DL1Cluster for more information about running jobs. If you have any problems please contact Rob Allan, e-Mail: robert.allan@stfc.ac.uk .
dl1 now available following software upgrade, see http://www.nw-grid.ac.uk/DL1Cluster for more information. SCORE is no longer supported.
- The cseem64t cluster has been re-commissioned as a production service subject to demand.
Lancaster
- problem with storage system has been resolved
- lancs2 is now available following repair of the cluster's chiller
Liverpool
2010-04-04: lv3 is available following a rebuild, running RedHat 5.
Advance warning of work on lv1: lv1 will be rebuilt with network changes, improvements to the batch systems and a different (RedHat 5-based) OS at a date to be determined. User applications may need rebuilding for the new OS.
- lv1.nw-grid.ac.uk is available for users requiring a high-performance interconnect.
- users are strongly discouraged from using SCore MPI - OpenMPI is available instead.
Manchester
- no issues
UCLAN
- nothing to report
Portal/ VRE
- Portal down on morning of Tuesday 16th March for Oracle maintenance. Please save all your work before this starts.
Web Site
- no issues