Recent News#

  • 27/03 - LiteLLM python package compromised

    On March 24, 2026, the popular LiteLLM python package was compromised by a supply chain attack. If you are using LiteLLM in any form, please take immediate action and check if any of the compromised versions (v1.82.7 or v1.82.8) are installed. See the LiteLLM blog post on the incident for all the details on how to check if you are affected and what to do if that’s the case: https://docs.litellm.ai/blog/security-update-march-2026.

  • 24/03 - Improved way to launch interactive jobs

    We’ve changed the recommended way to launch an interactive job on a compute node from the terminal interface. Previously, this was done using srun --pty bash -l. We now recommend using salloc, which makes it possible to launch parallel MPI jobs with srun or mpirun from within the interactive session. All related documentation has been updated accordingly, see the section on Interactive jobs for details.

  • 18/03 - VSC Web Authentication Outage

    10:00 The authentication to VSC web services has been restored. All users from VUB and UZB can access our services normally.

  • 17/03 - VUB VSC single sign-on server upgrade

    The upgrade is postponed to 23 March.

  • 27/02 - Update of the HPC portal

    We have updated the VUB OnDemand portal by installing several new apps, upgrading to Open OnDemand 4.1 and making a slight change to the job submission forms.