Black Forest Grid Freiburg

The BFG community consists of an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Albert Ludwig University joining forces to establish an infrastructure looking for new solutions in scientific computation.

BFG Lustre maintenance 31.01.2012 (from 31.01.2012 08:00 to 31.01.2012 13:00)

During this time, the file system won't be reachable. Please schedule your jobs accordingly.

BFG Lustre offline

Due to a hardware failure, the Lustre file system is down until further notice. We hope to get it back online soon.

bwGRiD: Quotas enabled for /gridhome

The limit is 25G soft and 50G hard! Please save your files to the storage in Karlsruhe or to your local home. For calculation you can use your lustre space in ${SCRATCH} (30T for all). Only Grid users (dgbw...) affected.

GPGPU/HPC workshop (Computing Center, room 112, from 08.11.2011 09:00 to 08.11.2011 16:00)

A workshop on High Performance Computing with a special focus on Computing on Graphics Processing Units.

bwGRiD: New software available / old will be deactivated

We will have a maintenance of the cooling system tomorrow (as you may know). We will try to use this time to install some new software and deactivate old ones.

Air condition maintenance - clusters down (from 30.09.2011 08:00 to 30.09.2011 13:00)

Regular maintenance of air condition heat exchanger (V-belts and stuff)

Cooling System Tests (online) (from 28.09.2011 13:30 to 28.09.2011 15:30)

From 13:30 on the cooling system will be tested! The BFG and bwGRiD cluster will stay online but new jobs WON'T START to have a smaller load in the racks. If sth. unexpected happens we may be forced to shut down the cluster. Be prepared!

Next BFG User Meeting (from 21.09.2011 14:30 to 21.09.2011 15:30)

21.09.2011, 14:30, Rechenzentrum, room 112