Drafts
VUB HPC Overview 2025
- 01/06/2026
The main event for the SDC team in 2025 was the inauguration of Sofia as the next VSC Tier-1 system hosted by the VUB. While the system is not yet operational, we spent a lot of time and effort preparing for its arrival and installation. To promote Sofia, we visited many research groups to show our services and explain what HPC & Pixiu can mean for a researcher. Nevertheless, our Tier-2 HPC clusters Hydra and Anansi were not left aside and underwent several key changes to keep them up to date and in good shape for 2026.
VSC Link briefly down on 5 May
- 30/04/2026
Due to a scheduled migration of the VSC link, connectivity between VUB-HPC and other VSC hubs will be temporarily suspended on 5 May. This should not take longer than a few minutes. Jobs running on your home institution clusters are unaffected. Jobs running on remote VSC clusters will also continue to run, unless they require access to $VSC_DATA or $VSC_HOME.
VUB-HPC briefly offline on 23 February
- 18/02/2026
Due to a scheduled firewall migration, the VUB-HPC clusters will be temporarily inaccessible on 23 February. This should not take longer than a few minutes. Users will be unable to access the clusters during the migration. Running jobs will continue to run, provided they do not require external internet access.