changelog Updates

Master Node Rebooted

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Incident (5/21/20): While fixing issues with the GPU nodes, the master node became unstable because of several mount points that were damaged. All of the mount were runtime filesystems so a reboot was requested and fulfilled by SRCF...
System Failure
Fix

SLURM's Default Memory Per CPU Increased (1GB --> 2GB)

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Hi All, Based on previous usage, the default allocation of 1GB of memory per cpu is too low. I have now increased this default to 2GB of memory per cpu. If you are not setting memory requirements in your job(s), this will change will...
Announcement
Improvement

SLURM Priority Adjustment

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Since priorities were not working for those users who use Memex less frequently and in smaller batches of submitted jobs, these parameters were adjusted: As a result gres/gpu was added to: This functionality changes in SLURM 19+, but...
Announcement
Maintenance
Improvement

Memex unable to accept new user logins

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Issue 01/14/20: While installing new packages on the login server, the file /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten and caused new user logins to fail. Once the file was replaced with the proper nameserver values, Memex accepted new logins...
Fix
System Failure

User reported that rsync/cp/scp too slow on /memexnfs/apps,

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Temporary Resolution 01/02/20: Using rclone instead of rsync/cp/scp is 10x faster for large directory and possibly large file syncs to /memexnfs/ mountpoints. Although all reads from /memexnfs mounts are performing performing as...
System Failure
Announcement
Fix

Login Node Slowness (module command hanging on memex.carnegiescience.edu)

by Floyd Fayton, HPC Admin
Resolved 12/10/19: After tuning the NFS server and clients, the slowness was resolved. Although there were several adjustments, the RPCNFSDCOUNT variable in /etc/sysconfig/nfs was the change that made the biggest improvement (100x...
Announcement
System Failure
Fix