News

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• 26 Sep 2024 — Proxy server issue when accessing external source from a compute node
• 23 Sep 2024 — Announcement: Upgrade of Slurm Jobs WebGUI on Friday (27.09)
• 13 Sep 2024 — Slurm scheduling issue
• 03 Sep 2024 — Network interruption to the CSCS datacenter
• 26 Aug 2024 — Partial power outage in CSCS datacenter
• 20 Aug 2024 — Network (DNS) outage
• 31 Jul 2024 — Issues with the work storage file system
• 23 Jul 2024 — Announcement: 13. August 2024, maintenance window for license servers
• 17 Jul 2024 — Upgrade of the Slurm controller to Ubuntu during the morning. You can expect an interruption of all services relying on slurm (e.g. jupyterhub [running session should not be impacted] and slurm-jobs-webgui) during a few minutes. In case of issue, it can take up to 1h.
• 11 Jul 2024 — Upgrade of storage controllers for /cluster/work
• 27 Jun 2024 — Cooling problems in the CSCS data center (27.06.2024)
• 25 Jun 2024 — The default operating system of Euler will switch to Ubuntu Thursday 27 June at 7am
• 19 Jun 2024 — Power outage in CSCS datacenter
• 21 May 2024 — Globus downtime 2024-05-22/23
• 02 May 2024 — Euler usage statistics for 2023
• 24 Apr 2024 — Multinode Abaqus jobs with Slurm
• 23 Apr 2024 — Announcement: Euler general maintenance 4-6 June 2024
• 19 Apr 2024 — Power outage in CSCS datacenter
• 11 Apr 2024 — Migrating from CentOS to Ubuntu
• 21 Mar 2024 — New notification system for the storage
• 4 Mar 2024 — Slurm is currently broken. We are investigating the issue
• 26 Feb 2024 — We will do a migration of our web authentication system during the day. You might suffer from small interruptions on our Suggestion Box and Slurm Jobs WebGUI.
• 22 Feb 2024 — Jobs are slow to start. We are investigating the issue
• 07 Feb 2024 — Storage maintenance on 13 February
• 29 Jan 2024 — New monitoring tool to improve the cluster usage
• 25 Jan 2024 — Euler IX is now available
• 11 Jan 2024 — A Suggestion Box is now available
• 10 Jan 2024 — New quotas for the home directories (50GB and 500k files)
• 10 Jan 2024 — The wiki is now editable by everyone (with a review from us before publishing)
• 18 Dec 2023 — Issues with the ETH network on Friday 15 Dec
• 20 Nov 2023 — Early release of Slurm Jobs WebGUI
• 09 Nov 2023 — JupyterHub unavailable
• 26 Oct 2023 — New mailing list for Euler related news and announcements: Cluster News
• 18 Oct 2023 — Beta test phase for new RTX 4090 GPUs
• 10 Oct 2023 — Infrastructure incident (07 Oct 2023)
• 25 Sep 2023 — Announcement: Euler general maintenance 24-27 October 2023
• 04 Sep 2023 — Slurm hardware migration
• 01 Sep 2023 — Slurm issues (1. September 2023)
• 29 Aug 2023 — Power outage in CSCS datacenter
• 23 Aug 2023 — Best Practices
• 03 Jul 2023 — Power outage in CSCS datacenter
• 13 Jun 2023 — Cloud Service for Jupyterhub, RStudio and VSCode on Euler
• 15 May 2023 — Announcement: Planned maintenance in June and August 2023
• 22 Mar 2023 — MPI + Singularity on multiple nodes
• 08 Feb 2023 — Euler power outage
• 01 Feb 2023 — Euler usage statistics for 2022
• 19 Dec 2022 — Euler VIII nodes are operational
• 08 Nov 2022 — Decommissioning of Euler IV
• 25 Sep 2022 — ParaView Client-Server configuration available now
• 15 Sep 2022 — Announcement: Euler general maintenance 18-24 October 2022
• 05 Sep 2022 — Weights and biases web service temporarily blocked on ETH proxy server due to a recent DOS
• 05 Aug 2022 — Transition from LSF to Slurm
• 27 Jul 2022 — First new RTX3090 GPUs are available in Euler
• 10 May 2022 — Work storage /cluster/work only partially available
• 04 May 2022 — Decommissioning of Euler III
• 21 Mar 2022 — Announcement: Euler general maintenance 5-7 April 2022
• 21 Mar 2022 — Announcement: Tonight the Euler queues will be suspended 9:00pm-10:00pm for data migration
• 21 Mar 2022 — Nvidia RTX 3090 test unit
• 18 Mar 2022 — Using MPI on Euler
• 17 Feb 2022 — List of publications that mention the HPC clusters of ETH
• 31 Jan 2022 — The new CPU and GPU nodes in Euler are operational
• 28 Jan 2022 — Change of Ansys license servers
• 25 Jan 2022 — Change of global default for the software stack on Euler
• 18 Jan 2022 — Disabling ls color option
• 14 Jan 2022 — AlphaFold2 AI for protein folding and databases are now available on Euler
• 05 Jan 2022 — Usage statistics for 2021
• 09 Dec 2021 — Change of GPU specifiers in the batch system
• 16 Nov 2021 — Problems with the infiniband network on Euler VII nodes
• 01 Oct 2021 — The new quick guide for the HPC clusters is now online and linked on the front page of the wiki
• 30 Aug 2021 — Annoucement: Leonhard Open will be integrated into Euler on 14-15 September 2021
• 20 Aug 2021 — Annoucement: Euler cooling maintenance 7-9 September 2021
• 26 May 2021 — Announcement: Euler storage maintenance 8 June 2021
• 06 May 2021 19:55 — All batch queues on Euler are active again. There are still sporadic issues with the "/cluster/scratch" file system; we continue to work on it
• 06 May 2021 17:40 — All batch queues on Euler have been temporarily inactivated while we investigate an issue with the "/cluster/scratch" file system
• 20 Apr 2021 — Script to set a permanent default for software stack initialized on Euler upon login
• 06 Apr 2021 — New scratch file system for the Euler cluster
• 26 Feb 2021 — Euler network outage. There was a network outage, but now the cluster is again accessible
• 10 Feb 2021 — Annoucement Euler network maintenance 24 February 2021
• 04 Feb 2021 — Usage statistics for 2020
• 14 Jan 2021 — New account request process for Euler and Leonhard Open
• 12 Nov 2020 — Announcement: Leonhard Open maintenance 2-4 December 2020
• 26 Oct 2020 — Euler power outage
• 02 Jun 2020 — Reopening of Euler
• 22 May 2020 — Partial reopening of Leonhard
• 14 May 2020 — Clusters temporarily closed for security reasons
• 14 Apr 2020 — Upcoming Euler VII expansion
• 17 Mar 2020 — COVID-19 — Cluster operation during state of emergency at ETH
• 07 Feb 2020 — Issues with the Lustre storage system on Euler
• 31 Jan 2020 — Beta test of new Euler VI nodes
• 22 Jan 2020 — Results of the cluster user survey 2019
• 10 Jan 2020 — Power issue in LEE data center, affecting Leonhard cluster
• 07 Jan 2020 — Usage statistics for 2019
• 18 Dec 2019 — Pre-announcement: Euler maintenance 28-31 January 2020
• 15 Oct 2019 — Issues with the Lustre storage system on Euler
• 27 Sep 2019 — Script to run a Jupyter notebook interactively in a batch job on Euler or Leonhard Open
• 27 Sep 2019 — Euler network maintenance (1 October 2019)
• 14 Aug 2019 — Announcement: Leonhard Open maintenance 21 August 2019
• 18 Jun 2019 — Maintenance of /cluster/work in Euler 24 June 2019 8:30-9:30 AM
• 21 May 2019 — Announcement: Leonhard Open maintenance 3–5 June 2019
• 29 Mar 2019 — Pre-announcement: Euler maintenance 21-23 May 2019
• 25 Mar 2019 — New CUDA 10 now available on Leonhard
• 19 Mar 2019 — Windows: PuTTY security updates
• 18 Mar 2019 — Lustre maintenance on Leonhard Open
• 04 Mar 2019 — New unified quota wrapper for all our file systems on our clusters
• 08 Feb 2019 — New Nvidia DGX-1 deep learning server with Tensor Cores
• 01 Feb 2019 — Usage statistics for 2018
• 09 Jan 2019 — Announcement: CSCS network maintenance
• 10 Dec 2018 — Beta test of new sofware stack on Euler
• 30 Nov 2018 — Euler V testing
• 29 Nov 2018 — Leonhard Open maintenance 7 December 2018
• 31 Oct 2018 — Pre-announcement: Leonhard maintenance 5 November 2018
• 01 Oct 2018 — Euler power outage
• 28 Sep 2018 — Mutagen Astronomy vulnerability
• 15 Aug 2018 — All scratch directories of Euler have been migrated to a new storage system
• 10 Aug 2018 — Emergency shutdown of Euler due to power outage in Lugano
• 02 Aug 2018 — Announcement: Euler I upgrade scheduled to start on 20 August 2018
• 26 Jul 2018 — New Euler login nodes may trigger SSH warning
• 24 Jul 2018 — Emergency shutdown of Euler due to power outage in Lugano
• 05 Jul 2018 — Euler power outage
• 09 May 2018 — Pre-announcement: 28 June 2018: Integral test in the LEE building
• 09 May 2018 — Pre-announcement: Euler maintenance 12-14 June 2018
• 17 Jan 2018 — Usage statistics for 2017
• 08 Jan 2018 — Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities
• 16 Oct 2017 — Intel compiler not compatible with CentOS 7.4
• 25 Aug 2017 — Euler migration from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7
• 27 Jul 2017 — Pre-announcement: Euler maintenance 26-29 September 2017
• 26 Jul 2017 — No user support on Monday 31 July
• 22 Jun 2017 — Urgent maintenance to fix security vulnerability
• 24 Apr 2017 — Euler maintenance on 31 May 2017
• 04 Apr 2017 — Batch system upgrade from LSF 9.1 to LSF 10.1
• 31 Mar 2017 — Hyper-threading progressively activated on Euler
• 20 Mar 2017 — Euler III available for general beta testing
• 24 Feb 2017 — Urgent maintenance to fix security vulnerability
• 15 Feb 2017 — Network problem
• 15 Jan 2017 — Presentation of the new Leonhard cluster
• 03 Feb 2017 — Euler III inauguration
• 19 Jan 2017 — Usage statistics for 2016
• 16 Jan 2017 — Brutus is closed
• 23 Nov 2016 — CLC Genomics workshop at ETH
• 24 Oct 2016 — Emergency maintenance to fix security vulnerability
• 13 Oct 2016 — Brutus to be decommissioned at the end of 2016
• 13 Sep 2016 — Euler maintenance on 21 September 2016
• 22 Jul 2016 — Euler maintenance on 30-31 August 2016