Universe-Rebooted

FYI ONLY
The COSMOS facility, which is located in the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at the University, is dedicated to research in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. It was switched on in 2012.

To date, the facility has been used to simulate the dynamics of the early Universe and for pipelines analysing the statistics of Planck satellite maps of the cosmic microwave sky. The COSMOS supercomputer was the first very large (over 10 terabyte) single-image shared-memory system to incorporate Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, which are behind the most power-efficient computers in the world.

Intel Parallel Computing Centres (IPCC) are universities, institutions, and labs that are leaders in their field. The centres are focusing on modernising applications to increase parallelism and scalability through optimisations that leverage cores, caches, threads, and vector capabilities of microprocessors and coprocessors.

As an IPCC, the COSMOS research facility will receive enhanced Intel support from its applications and engineering teams, as well as early access to future Intel Xeon Phi and other Intel products aimed at high-performance computing. IPCC status will allow COSMOS to better focus on delivering computing advances to the scientific community it serves and also highlight the efforts Intel has put into advancing high-performance computing

Universe was just rebooted a moment ago due to the long-standing issue with NFS.
Fortunately this ought to be the last time: all the other machines already have what seems to be a final fix for the issue and after this reboot universe will have it, too. The fix requires a reboot and since universe has been running smoothly, we have just been waiting for a reason to reboot universe. Now we have it, so now we fix it.
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Best regards,
COSMOS Management
UPDATE@2014-05-14, 16:00:49 BST: Universe is back up.

http://www.cosmos.damtp.cam.ac.uk/system-status/universe-rebooted

When operating at peak performance, the COSMOS Supercomputer can perform 38.6 trillion calculations per second (TFLOPS), and is based on SGI UV2000 systems with 1856 cores of Intel Xeon processors E5-2600, 14.8 TB RAM and 31 Intel^® Xeon Phi^TM coprocessors.

 When operating at peak performance, the COSMOS Supercomputer can perform 38.6 trillion calculations per second (TFLOPS), and is based on SGI UV2000 systems with 1856 cores of Intel Xeon processors E5-2600, 14.8 TB RAM and 31 Intel^® Xeon Phi^TM coprocessors.