Recent News#

  • 23/02 - VUB HPC Overview 2025

    2025 marked a year of strong growth and strategic preparation for the SDC team. While significant effort was invested in preparing for the next VSC Tier-1 Sofia , the Tier-2 infrastructure (Hydra and Anansi) continued to expand in usage, users, and services.

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  • 18/02 - VUB-HPC briefly offline on 23 February

    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.

  • 17/02 - Network upgrade on scratch

    14:00 The upgrade operation has been completed ahead of schedule. All new components were successfully installed. The job queue in Hydra is again accepting jobs.

  • 10/02 - 18,20/3/2026: Linux and HPC Introduction Trainings

    We are pleased to announce on-site Linux and HPC introductions on the VUB Health campus in Jette, in cooperation with the Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum (VSC).

  • 05/02 - New GPU nodes added to Hydra

    We’re happy to announce the public availability of hopper_gpu, a brand new GPU partition in Hydra. This partition features 5 nodes, each equipped with 2 NVIDIA H200 GPUs (140 GB VRAM) and 48 CPU cores.