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06/11/2024 - VSC User Survey

21/10/2024 - Workflow Managers for HPC on November 25, 2024

04/09/2024 - VSC Users Day 22 October 2024

27/06/2024 - New Anansi cluster for notebooks and test/debug jobs

26/06/2024 - Visual Studio Code now available

25/06/2024 - Hydra OS upgrade

12/06/2024 - Removal of broadwell nodes from Hydra

05/06/2024 - Notebook platform environments on 2023a

31/05/2024 - Hydra Overview 2023

23/04/2024 - Hydra system upgrade with brand new nodes

21/03/2024 - Planned internet interruptions on 6 April 2024

18/03/2024 - Softening environment of Julia modules

09/02/2024 - Your OneDrive in VUB can now be used from Globus

09/01/2024 - Hydra scratch flash storage upgrade part 2 on 10 January 2024

22/12/2023 - Organization of Python, Perl and R packages in bundles

18/12/2023 - Hydra scratch flash storage upgrade on 19 December 2023

28/11/2023 - Hydra upgrade 27-28 November finished

08/11/2023 - VSC User Survey

27/10/2023 - Big upgrade for Hydra on 27-28 November 2023

23/10/2023 - Belgian LUMI user day

11/10/2023 - Job scheduler outage in Hydra

21/08/2023 - License server upgrade

26/07/2023 - Reboot of Hydra login nodes

14/07/2023 - Network outage at VUB main campus

29/06/2023 - Scheduled maintenance of HPC notebook platform

03/05/2023 - Tier-1 Data launch event

29/03/2023 - New web portal for notebooks on the HPC

27/03/2023 - Legacy software change

17/03/2023 - Extra Ampere GPUs in Hydra

03/03/2023 - Documentation website refresh

06/02/2023 - New notebook platform pilot

23/01/2023 - New command prompt in Hydra

13/01/2023 - LUMI user course

21/11/2022 - Hydra login nodes reboot

07/11/2022 - LUMI user training

02/11/2022 - Data snapshots of the scratch in Hydra

24/10/2022 - Bug fixes for GCC and OpenBLAS

14/09/2022 - VSC Lunch Session on OpenFOAM

22/08/2022 - New Globus endpoint for Hydra

11/08/2022 - Hydra storage down

05/08/2022 - More Ampere GPUs in Hydra

02/08/2022 - Job monitoring and checkpoints

30/06/2022 - External network connection cut

28/06/2022 - Scheduled maintenance for Hydra in July

03/06/2022 - Quota data synchronisation is now working again

25/05/2022 - Slow network connection to external systems

11/05/2022 - VSC Users Day 2022

05/05/2022 - Hydra-VSC network failure

21/04/2022 - Irregular low performance of Hydra’s new storage

19/04/2022 - Hydra move to VUB Etterbeek campus completed

09/04/2022 - Kickoff of operation to move Hydra into campus

28/03/2022 - User survey 2022

20/03/2022 - Hydra power cut

17/03/2022 - Hydra moves to VUB Etterbeek campus

03/03/2022 - Multiple software packages updated in Hydra

01/02/2022 - VUB-HPC user survey 2022

27/01/2022 - VSC/CÉCI Workshop on Managing Workflows in HPC

27/01/2022 - GAMESS-US v2021-R2 available in Hydra

17/01/2022 - Survey about trainings

21/12/2021 - Tier-1 Info Session cutoff 1 2022

16/12/2021 - New GPU nodes in Hydra

15/12/2021 - AlphaFold 2.1.1 available in Hydra

10/12/2021 - System update in Hydra

04/10/2021 - Migration of Hydra to Slurm

17/09/2021 - VSC Lunch Session on A.I.

15/09/2021 - Update of the MPI stack in Hydra

24/08/2021 - New documentation for SRA-Toolkit

22/07/2021 - Urgent system update in Hydra

19/07/2021 - TensorFlow 2.5.0 is available in Hydra

14/07/2021 - Reboot of scheduler

07/07/2021 - ORCA 5.0.0 is available in Hydra

06/07/2021 - CSC Autumn courses for LUMI

14/06/2021 - Rolling system updates

28/04/2021 - User survey 2021

26/04/2021 - OneDrive Client in Hydra

20/04/2021 - VSC Tier-1 Cloud Launch Event

25/01/2021 - New upcoming online trainings (Winter 2021)

25/11/2020 - Hydra storage maintenance scheduled on 26/11

09/11/2020 - New upcoming online trainings (Fall 2020)

27/08/2020 - Hydra maintenance scheduled on 29/08

03/08/2020 - Preventive measures for second heatwave

09/06/2020 - PRACE online training on Parallel Programming

02/06/2020 - Electricity works on the cooling system

27/05/2020 - Hydra security hardening

11/05/2020 - Hydra storage maintenance scheduled on 18/05

16/04/2020 - Hydra network maintenance scheduled on 20/04

15/04/2020 - Free Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)

02/04/2020 - Urgent reboot of Hydra login server

23/03/2020 - VSC COVID-19 Action

09/03/2020 - Hydra unexpected network disconnection

06/03/2020 - New upcoming training sessions (Spring 2020)

17/02/2020 - Fixed node crashes caused by MPI jobs