With migrations to Andromeda 2 well underway for half the cluster community, we will begin hosting a series of working sessions starting March 25th, 2025 for those looking to learn more about the new cluster or in need of assistance with their migration. The Research Help page is still the best place to submit a request for assistance. […]
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The Slurm job scheduler uses partitions to organize job submissions from researchers. Andromeda has partitions that structured to separated jobs by the amount of time they require to complete, preferring shorter running jobs to facilitate the fast paced demands of BC’s research community. The “partition priority” for each partition listed below in on of many
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We’re working with multiple project owners to migrate their workloads from Andromeda 1 to Andromeda 2 at this time. Each new group that migrates takes a bit of compute with them from Andromeda 1 to Andromeda 2, until eventually Andromeda 1 is no more and only Andromeda 2 remains. So, you may notice Andromeda 1
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Twice a year (January and July) the HPC cluster and other systems in the data center undergo a patch cycle. We’ll be patching Andromeda 1 & 2 on 1/23/25, with down time for both clusters starting at 6am that morning. The patch cycle also serves as an opportunity to address hardware changes and other adjustments
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We’ll be posting updates about the HPC clusters and other RS specific information in this blog. Check here for the latest news on what BC’s Research Services team has been up to.
