We would like to advise BEAR users of upcoming essential maintenance on cooling systems that will impact our services over Easter, in particular the HPC-facility, BlueBEAR, which will be unavailable for two weeks. Background behind the maintenance The Park Grange Data Centre is where the University’s High-Performance Computing systems, BlueBEAR and Baskerville reside, as well … Continue reading “Cooling works in data centre – upcoming service disruption”
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November BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter This month, we have exciting news about award-winning research in the international HPCwire awards, plus three posts available within Advanced Research Computing. Further to October’s newsletter, our two student teams for the CIUK Cluster Challenge, return-1 and TED, have now completed challenge 3. Results are still to be … Continue reading “November BEAR Newsletter”
Stabilising BEAR
Over the past few months we’ve had a number of service issues with BEAR and this is something we’d really like to apologise for – we pride ourselves on providing excellent services and recently we’ve not lived up to that. Sorry about this! 🙇🏻 I thought I’d take some time to explain some of the issues … Continue reading “Stabilising BEAR”