Monthly Archives: March 2017

Revolutions R in new acf cluster

Posted on 2017-03-31 by admin

The cluster runs on RedHat RHEL 6, which is too old to support the new versions of R. The principal weakness is the older gcc compiler in RHEL6. In the cluster, however, we have access to much newer Intel MKL … Continue reading →

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Making sure fonts are embedded in LaTeX thesis and dissertation documents

Posted on 2017-03-30 by admin

KU thesis rules require that all fonts used in the submitted PDF document must be embedded in the document itself. This is required to eliminate the problem that special symbols are not legible in the document on the receiver's computer. … Continue reading →

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ACF Cluster resource limits: home file space and file quota

Posted on 2017-03-04 by admin

User home folders are limited at 100GB and no customization is allowed. To our users who were previously limited to 20GB, that's great news. To the others who had 600GB allocations, that's disaster. Oh, well. Just one among many. When … Continue reading →

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Interactive sessions on HPC

Posted on 2017-03-03 by admin

Danger: new smaller memory default! At the user meeting on April 12, we found out that requesting 1 core will automatically provide only 500MB of memory. This is a BIG change, because in older cluster we received 2GB per core … Continue reading →

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Cluster user update

Posted on 2017-03-01 by admin

We will have a cluster update meeting on Friday at 10AM in Watson Room 440D (within the suite of the Digital Humanities group). Today the Center for Research Computing announced the re-opening of the compute cluster. A number of features … Continue reading →

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