Latest updates, announcements, and highlights from our center.
October 30, 2026
Container jobs (Pyxis/enroot) temporarily unavailable
Dear users,
as announced on October 23rd, we have applied temporary protective measures to all cluster nodes following recently disclosed security vulnerabi…
October 30, 2026
New node ringhio: 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs with 96GB VRAM
Dear users,
We are pleased to announce that a new compute node, ringhio, has been added to both the boost_usr_prod and all_usr_prod partitions. The node has…
October 30, 2026
Network interruption today, 15:00-19:00: jobs using external connections may fail
Dear users,
this is a reminder that today, Friday October 30th, from 15:00 to 19:00, the University will carry out an extraordinary maintenance on the firew…
October 23, 2026
Security maintenance: ailb-login-02 and ailb-login-03 rebooted
Dear users,
following recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, last night we applied protective measures to all cluster nodes. As pa…
October 15, 2026
Rolling reboot of all cluster nodes
Dear users,
this is to inform you that we are performing a rolling reboot of all compute nodes. Over the past days, a bug in Slurm's job profiling plugin c…
September 23, 2026
Maintenance completed
Dear users,
this is to inform you that the maintenance of today has been completed, and the cluster is now back to full production.
Best regards,
Lorenz…
September 21, 2026
Maintenance update: downtime on Sept 22-23, 8:00-17:00
Dear users,
Here is an update on the maintenance announced last week.
All nodes are back online and available as of today.
As a reminder, this mainten…
September 7, 2026
Planned maintenance: 21-25 September
Dear users,
We would like to inform you of a planned maintenance window scheduled from Monday, September 21st to Friday, September 25th.
During this inte…
June 24, 2026
Introducing three new nodes with 96GB VRAM
Dear users,
We are pleased to announce the addition of three new compute nodes to the boost_usr_prod partition: aldo, giovanni, and giacomo. Each node is eq…
June 23, 2026
Introducing DRES: Long-term Storage for Project Results
Dear users,
We are pleased to announce the availability of **DRES**, a new long-term storage area on AImageLab-HPC.
## What is DRES?
DRES (`/dres/`) i…
June 19, 2026
Provisional Restoration of Full Production
Dear users,
We are provisionally restoring full production on the HPC cluster. Please note that, due to the ongoing electrical works at the DIEF power plant…
June 19, 2026
Possible Unplanned Service Interruptions
Dear users,
We would like to inform you that, due to electrical works in the DIEF power plant, unplanned interruptions of the HPC, virtualization, and web s…