Posted in 2025

HPC Training season is approaching at VUB

This fall the HPC team of VUB organizes in collaboration with VSC a variety of trainings for new and experienced users on supercomputing. We encourage you to check the contents of those trainings and participate in any that fits your interests. Registration is free for all of them.

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13-14/11/2025: Linux and HPC Introduction Trainings

We are pleased to announce our annual on-site Linux and HPC introduction training sessions, in cooperation with the Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum (VSC).

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03/11/2025: Getting Scientific Software Installed

For the first time ever, we’re organizing a 2-day training session in collaboration with the all other VSC hubs about installing software on your own on the VSC clusters.

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Hydra security shutdown

Access to Hydra is open again: both the portal and the login nodes are now online.

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Upgrade to Rocky Linux 9 and decommissioning Skylakes

The upgrade to Rocky Linux 9.5 is now complete.

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Hydra Overview 2024

In the year 2024 a lot of time was spent on the tender processes to procure the next VSC Tier-1 supercomputer hosted by VUB. Nevertheless our Tier-2 HPC cluster Hydra did undergo several key changes. It’s time for some statistics on the usage of the infrastructure on 2024.

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Update of HPC portal applications

We have updated the JupyterLab, RStudio and MATLAB applications in VUB’s OnDemand portal with newer versions of their software environments and a simplified form that should make the default settings of these applications more useful.

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New compute nodes added to Hydra

As of today, the four new high-memory nodes are now available as well. They have been added to both the zen5_himem and zen5_mpi partitions (but jobs that need a lot of memory will get priority on the high-memory nodes).

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VUB Firewall upgrade on 10 April 2025

The update has been postponed to April 14 between 08:00 and 10:00.

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Minor system upgrade of Hydra

On Friday, March 21, at 06:00 CET we will carry out a minor system upgrade of the login nodes. During this upgrade, Hydra will be unavailable to users for approximately 30 minutes. All user sessions on the login nodes will be disconnected, but running jobs will not be impacted.

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New OnDemand web portal for HPC

We’re happy to announce the public release of our new VUB OnDemand web portal at https://portal.hpc.vub.be .

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