Current news...

September 24th: all Stats' general purpose compute systems now running Ubuntu 18.04

All Stats' general purpose systems - fallas, festival, fiesta and hustler - are now running the same Ubuntu 18.04 operating system version; this has taken some time to complete since some of these systems have been heavily used so cannot be taken out of service for upgrades.

Older news items:

August 9th: new GPU server nvidia4 introduced
April 7th: Magma software upgraded to version 2.25-4
March 17th: a new 8 card GPU server installed
March 2nd: another backup server added
February 28th: internal network expansion, ma-backup4 and GPU servers coming soon
February 6th: more large compute servers for Stats
November 1st: NextGen is shutting down on November 1st in readiness for relocation
September 29th: matlab2018 queue has now been discontinued on the NextGen cluster
August 24th: matlab2018 queue to be discontinued on the NextGen cluster
August 14th: more servers for Stats, remote monitoring upgrades, better system status reporting and more power supplies
June 23rd: more servers in the server room, expanded Bazooka Hadoop cluster now available for use
May 29th: R Shiny server memory replaced & remote management added
April 12th: NextGen cluster Maple 2019 upgrade completed
March 16th: Planned Bazooka Hadoop cluster upgrade, reorganisation of backup servers
February 19th: ma-offsite2 now online
January 19th: Matlab 2018b upgrade ongoing
December 14th: Matlab upgrade to version R2018b started, Stats section compute & storage enhancements completed, silos3 and 4 introduced
September 18th: more local storage for Stats modal server and new PostgreSQL database server launched
August 29th: new 'du' command options, cluster R upgrade and ma-backup3
July 2nd: nvidia3 now has two GPU cards
May 15th: Early summer update
March 29th: Easter update
March 24th: spring update
March 10th: late winter update
December 15th: pre-Christmas update
November 22nd: late November update
October 8th: start of 2017/2018 academic year update
2017: Midsummer's Day update
June 16th, 2017: mid-June update
June 2nd, 2017: Early summer update
April 20th, 2017: Spring update 2
March 22nd, 2017: Early spring update
March 10th, 2017: Winter update 2
February 22nd, 2017: Winter update
November 2nd, 2016: Autumn update
October 21st, 2016: Late summer update 2
October 14th, 2016: Late summer update
February 19th, 2016: Winter update
December 11th, 2015: Autumn update
September 14th, 2015: Late summer update 2
May 2nd, 2015: Spring update 2
April 26th, 2015: Spring update
November 11th, 2014: Autumn update
September 17th, 2014: Summer update 2
July 17th, 2014: Summer update
March 15th, 2014: Spring update
November 2nd, 2013: Summer update
May 24th, 2013: Spring update
January 23rd, 2013: Happy New Year!
November 22nd, 2012: No news is good news...
November 17th, 2011: A revamp for the Maths SSH gateways
September 7th, 2011: Failed systems under repair
August 14th, 2011: Introducing calculus, a new NFS home directory server for research users
July 19th, 2011: a new staging server for the compute cluster
July 19th, 2011: A new Matlab queue and improved queue documentation
June 30th, 2011: Updated laptop backup scripts
June 18th, 2011: More storage for the silo...
June 16th, 2011: Yet more storage for the SCAN...
June 10th, 2011: 3 new nodes added to the Maths compute cluster
May 21st, 2011: Announcing SCAN large storage and subversion (SVN) servers
May 26th, 2011: Reporting missing scratch disk on macomp01
May 21st, 2011: Announcing completion of silo upgrades
May 16th, 2011: Announcing upgrades for silo
April 14th, 2011: Goodbye SCAN 3, hello SCAN 4
March 26th, 2011: quickstart guide to using the Torque/Maui cluster job queueing system
March 9th, 2011: automatic laptop backup/sync service, new collaboration systems launched
May 20th, 2010: Scratch disks are now available on all macomp and mablad compute cluster systems
March 11th, 2010: Introduing job queueing on the Fünf Gruppe compute cluster
October 16th, 2008: Introduing the Fünf Gruppe compute cluster
June 18th, 2008: German City compute farm now expanded to 22 machines
February 7th, 2008: new applications on the Linux apps server, unclutter your desktop
November 13th, 2007: aragon and cathedral now general access computers, networked Linux Matlab installation upgraded to R2007a
September 14th, 2007: Problems with sending outgoing mail for UNIX & Linux users
July 23rd, 2007: SCAN available full-time over the summer vacation, closure of Imperial's Usenet news server
May 15th, 2007: Temporary SCAN suspension, closure of the Maths Physics computer room, new research computing facilities
January 14th, 2005: Exchange mail server upgrade, spam filtering with pine and various other enhancements

Andy Thomas

Research Computing Manager,
Department of Mathematics

last updated: 24.09.2020