• 2023-08-05 1:45am

    We have moved the cluster back to the department server room. All service has now resumed.

  • 2023-06-17 1:00pm

    The Dynare installation on the cluster has been updated to version 5.4, which is the newest version available. The installation is only linked to MATLAB but not Octave. If you need Dynare with Octave, please contact support.

  • 2023-06-10 5:50pm

    Since Microsoft is retiring Microsoft R Open (MRO) on June 30, 2023, we will retire the MRO installation on SCRP at the same time. As a replacement, we are offering a new Conda-based R installation that is linked to the Intel Math Kernel Library. Please refer to the guide on R for details.

  • 2023-06-05 10:40pm

    June 2023 maintenance has completed, and all services have resumed. We regrettably report that due to software issues, the cluster has suffered data loss on the distributed storage.

  • 2023-05-15 2:50am

    Stata 18 is now available on cluster, and it will be the default version after the next maintainence in early June. In the meantime, you can access it through the terminal by typing the following commands:

  • 2023-05-15 2:00am

    Faculty members can now request the creation of group storage directories, which allow files to be shared among multiple users. Details here.

  • 2023-04-17 8:00pm

    Two nodes crashed yesterday (Apr. 16) while running jobs dispatched by the same user. While we are still investigating the cause, we believe the most likely cause was the nodes running out of memory. As a precaution, we are reducing the amount of usable memory as follows:

  • 2023-01-28 3:15pm

    Resource limit has been updated. Details here.

  • 2022-12-03 1:53am

    We are glad to announce that, with generous funding support from the department, SCRP now offers access to NVIDIA A100 datacenter GPUs. Blog post with benchmarks and instructions here.

  • 2022-11-13 1:22pm

    We have replaced the detective components of scrp-login. All services have resumed.

  • 2022-11-13 12:31am

    scrp-login appears to have suffered a critical hardware failure and has gone offline.

    • Please use scrp-login-2.econ.cuhk.edu.hk for the time being.
    • Slurm and Jupyter (Slurm) jobs are unaffected by this outage.
    • /archive is inaccessible because it is physically hosted on scrp-login.
    • We should be able to replace any faulty hardware and bring the node back online on Monday (Nov. 14).
  • 2022-10-03 6:00pm

    You can now launch Jupyter—and by extension, the web GUI of MATLAB and R—on a compute node through the browser. This allows the interactive use of GPUs, more CPU cores and more memory on any device.

  • 2022-09-01 2:00pm

    We will be conducting our annual account cleanup tomorrow at 10am. The following operations will be carried out:

  • 2022-08-11 5:49pm

    The cluster’s SSL certificates got unexpectedly revoked before expiry this morning due to vendor change, resulting in the two login nodes becoming inaccessible. We have just obtained new certificates and all services have been restored.

  • 2022-08-06 1:18pm

    Some users have reported that they have been unable to open existing MATLAB scripts in the MATLAB GUI since the last maintenance. It appears that the last MATLAB update has changed certain settings and if you delete your MATLAB settings, it will work again. Instructions below.

  • 2022-07-20 4:24pm

    You can now switch input methods in remote desktop. Please follow the instructions here.

  • 2022-06-28 8:24pm

    Summer 2022 maintenace has completed and the cluster is now line. List of changes below.

  • 2022-05-06 2:49pm

    scrp-login has been rebooted and has regained outbound internet access. We have also taken this opportunity to implement the following changes:

  • 2022-02-07 3:47pm

    R has been optimized to run certain linear algebra operations faster. Details here.

  • 2022-01-29 6:00am

    Xstata was launching noticably slower on scrp-login than other nodes. This has been fixed.

  • 2022-01-27 12:45pm

    You can now transfer files over remote desktop. Please follow the instructions under File Transfer.