Recent News

• 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.

• 04/02 - User limits on Anansi

  We have added new limits to the number of CPU cores and GPU resources a single user can request across all jobs on the interactive/debug cluster Anansi. The aim is to improve queueing times and to avoid situations where a single user submits many jobs and uses up the resources of Anansi, effectively blocking other users from starting their session on OnDemand or batch jobs.

• 27/01 - Upgrade to Rocky Linux 9.7

  We are upgrading the OS and Slurm scheduler on Hydra and Anansi starting Tuesday, January 27. The rollout will start Tuesday night. User impact is minimal: there will be no downtime, and your running or queued jobs will remain unaffected.

• 19/12 - New command tool to recover lost data

  We have released a new command line tool called mysnapshots to help you restore files or directories from the storage snapshots. This tool can be used to recover lost items or to undo unwanted changes to existing ones. You can use mysnapshots in the login nodes of VUB-HPC clusters.