Dear HPC users,
due to a cooling failure on November 30, we have to delay the start of normal operations for Marvin. The hardware has not been compromised functionally, although a few defects occurred and have already been fixed. However, until the causes have been fully clarified and appropriate measures have been taken to prevent another malfunction, Marvin is currently only running in a very limited test mode to protect the hardware.
Since the beginning of November, Marvin had been in a closed testing phase. Up until the incident, these tests were carried out to our full satisfaction, and synthetic and application benchmarks also showed that the performance of the computer even exceeded expectations.
The fact that commissioning is stalling so close to completion is not only disappointing to future users. The HPC team at the HRZ and the HPC/A-Lab also would have liked to celebrate the end of a very intensive year with the completion of the project.
Best regards
Your HPC Team