We’ve released v2.13.2 of our products – a release always gets us excited! Highlights of this release include memory and processor statistics in Mistral, new program specific MPI, Network and Directory views in Breeze and mmap operation counts in the files view. There are many other improvements
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In a shared environment such as an HPC cluster, it’s easy for users to ‘noisy neighbour’ each other and themselves. They can make mistakes that slow down everyone’s work or halt the system completely. System rules and best practices are usually developed with years of experience in
Read more →I/O problems can manifest as performance issues or service outages. A lot of the time it helps to see what the disk is doing. Here are some nice free commandline tools that can help you to troubleshoot problems. iostat iostat reads from the /proc file system to
Read more →In November, I was invited to be on a panel organised by Cambridge University’s Engineering Department to mark the end of a module called Management of Technology. The aim of the session was to give students a chance to hear different perspectives on a variety of topics
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When you are creating a cloud storage solution such as on AWS, there are multiple parameters to consider. Not only do you need to know how much storage you need, but you need to know how the IOPs requirements and how bursty the workload is. Before you
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