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Gadi /scratch essential maintenance – Wed 16 June
- 6:00 pm AEST Wed to 10:00 am AEST Thu
- Essential maintenance as advised by vendor.
- All Gadi compute, login, data mover nodes offline during maintenance.
- At completion of maintenance /scratch quotas will be set soft quota = hard quota (no exceptions).
- No /scratch quota changes until completion of maintenance.
- No wall time extensions until completion of maintenance.
- File expiry dry run has identified approximately 5 PB in total for potential removal. All projects are advised to clean up.
Q3 scheduled maintenance
- Q3 maintenance .
- Next all-user advisories for Q3 scheduled maintenance will be sent and .
- More information about scheduled quarterly maintenance can be found on the System Maintenance and Notices page.
- Reminder: Please provide allocations for Q3.
- ALCG 2021-22 projects get underway in Q3.
Q4 scheduled maintenance
- Q4 maintenance (tentative).
- First all-user advisory for Q4 scheduled maintenance will be sent .
- More information about scheduled quarterly maintenance can be found on the System Maintenance and Notices page.
NCI Cloud
- Retirement of all Tenjin VM instances is expected to be completed by .
- NCI Cloud team is working with VM owners to finalise migration/retirement processes.
NCI Business Manager
- The position NCI Business Manager position is currently vacant. Recruitment expected ASAP.
- Components of the Business Manager's workload are currently delegated to various staff until an appointment is finalised.
- Functional email address for NCI business matters – business.manager.nci@anu.edu.au .
NCI Board update
- Two independent seats are open on the NCI Board.
- Further information to be available soon on the NCI public web site.
Policies for supplemental allocations
- NCI encourages overallocation of resource shares by ~5% to maximise value.
- If your overall compute consumption is estimated to exceed your resource entitlement by 5% or more, NCI will contact you to confirm handling of supplemental allocation requests.
Flexible Resource Allocation Model
- Initial presentation by Allan Williams, Associate Director, Services and Technologies
- Initial drafts of reference documentation are now available for download from the May meeting page, Scheme Manager Update - May 2021.
- Supporting documentation has been relocated to a more centrally-accessible, standalone documentation page, Flexible Resource Allocations.
- Implementation planned for 2021 Q3.
MyNCI – user accounts and projects
- User profiles are self-populated, and vary in completeness and quality.
- Some profile attributes will become mandatory. Expected to take effect in 2021 Q3.
- Update to institution/org attributes. Primarily affects ANU users.
- NCI to review account management processes for compliance with Privacy Act (Cth), and Australian Privacy Principles.
- The Lead CI on a project is responsible for managing project personnel. NCI strongly recommends that a Lead CI should reject any project membership requests from any person who do not have a known and legitimate connection to a project. Approving a project membership requests from an unknown person is a potential security risk to your project.
NCI user survey 2021
- Survey closed
- ~400 responses
- Analysis in progress by NCI Communications and Outreach.
NCI Tech Take
- Monthly guest speaker in computational science and HPC
- Event details are available on the NCI Events page of the NCI public web site.
- – To be confirmed; topic will be machine learning.
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