Recent News#

  • 11/03 - VUB VSC single sign-on server upgrade

    The VUB VSC single sign-on server will be upgraded on 18 March at approximately 9:00. The maintenance is expected to take only a few minutes. During this time, users may experience a brief interruption when accessing the VSC account page, the VSC OnDemand portals, or the VSC Firewall page. Running jobs will be unaffected, and SSH connections to the clusters will continue to function as normal.

  • 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.

  • 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.