Latest News

Latest News

• 24 Mar. 2022 - New scratch storage available to all users: We are excited to announce that the new scratch storage on ALICE is available for you to use from now on. It is a BeeGFS-powered parallel file system storage with a total capacity of 370TB. We have created a user directories for all ALICE users on the new scratch storage: /data1/$USER with a link in your home directory/home/$USER/data1. By default, you have a quota of 5TB which can be extended upon request. We ask all users to migrate their data to the new storage and adjust their workflows accordingly. See also the wiki page: Data Storage. We will keep the old scratch storage available for you to use until 30 April 2022. Then, we will disable access to it and you will have to contact us to gain access. Another two months later, we will start to remove any remaining data on the old scratch storage. Project directories on the old shared scratch have also been set up on the new scratch storage in /data1/projects/, but links in home directories of project team members have not been changed in order to avoid breaking existing workflows. We ask PIs to also start migrating the data in their project directories. After the migration has been completed, we will change links in the home directories of team members. If you have any questions or need assistance for migrating your data and workflow, please do not hesitate to the ALICE helpdesk.
• 09 Mar. 2022 - New short partition amd-short for all users So far node802 has been exclusive to researchers of MI. In agreement with the PI of node802, we are making parts of the resources of this node available to all users now. This will be facilitated through a specific partition called "amd-short" that can run jobs up to 4h using up to 64 cores and up to 1TB of memory. Node802 is somewhat different than all other nodes on ALICE which is you should go through the section "Important information about amd-short" before you start using the new partition.
• 01 Feb. 2022 - Node015 is back: Node015 has been repaired and is back in service.
• 12 Jan. 2022 - X2Go available on ALICE: We have added a new option to connect to ALICE. With X2Go, it is possible to work on ALICE using a graphical desktop environment. You can find details on how to set it up here: Login to ALICE using X2Go