UI improvements Person Directory
The UI of the person directory has been improved. Error messages are now more clearly visible and the view of vacant campus assignments has been revised.
Release Notes Version 2.5.0 – New study room traffic light
Features:
- The study room traffic light has been added (this shows the occupancy of study rooms, as was also displayed in the previous RWTHapp)
Improvements and bug fixes:
- The people search function has been improved: we have improved the search algorithm and optimized the results
- Outstanding fees (e.g., university library) are now sorted by date
- Several minor bug fixes
ARMForge becomes LinaroForge
With Linaro’s acquisition of the Forge toolset from ARM, the popular parallel debugger DDT and the performance analysis tool Performance Reports are now available as Linaro Forge.
The newest version of the toolset is available on CLAIX via module load LinaroForge/23.0.2.
You can track any disruptions or security advisories that may occur due to the aforementioned change in the RWTH-HPC category on our status reporting portal.
web phone directory CAS CAMPUS was shut down
On August 31, the RWTH Aachen University web phone directory CAS CAMPUS was shut down. The old CAS CAMPUS directory has now been completely replaced by the new RWTHcontacts directory.
For more information, please see the IT Center Blog and the circular.
HPC Cluster: Linux Kernel Upgrade
The Linux Kernel on the CLAIX18 compute nodes is being upgraded to kernel version 4.18.0-477.21.1. To maximise the availability of the compute cluster, the mandatory reboot of the nodes is scheduled as a reboot job, thus allowing all already submitted and running jobs for completion before the upgrade takes place.
Please note that the reboot is prioritised over other jobs, and some nodes may be temporarily unavailable after the reboot.
Best regards,
Your HPC-Team@RWTH
You can track any disruptions or security advisories that may occur due to the aforementioned change in the Email category on our status reporting portal.
Release Notes Version 2.4.0 – New default theme “System”
Improvements and bug fixes:
- In-app browser is used for links
- New default theme “System” was added
- Redirection when clicking on dashboard widgets is set up: “calendar,” “grades.”
- Some authentication issues were fixed
- Various bug fixes
Change in SSH Configuration: Depreciation of Insecure Methods, Addition of New Methods
As the result of a recent security evaluation, we have decided to disable several methods in key exchange, message authentication codes and encryption ciphers classified insecure/weak which obsoletes the following methods and method groups as listed below. In general, we have disabled SHA-1-based methods since SHA-1 is broken since early 2017 (cf. Stevens et al.: “The first collision for Full SHA-1”).
We kindly ask you to update your client configuration accordingly since these methods cannot be used anymore to access the RWTH Aachen HPC Cluster until further notice: Read the rest of this entry »
New version of the RWTH Person Directory and RWTHcontacts
New version of the RWTH Person Directory and RWTHcontacts. Just like in the RWTH Directory of Organizations, buildings and addresses can be selected using the RWTH building management system. Selected buildings are linked to the RWTH Navigator in RWTHcontacts.
Resource limits on HPC dialog systems changed
We have reduced the per-user-resource limits for main memory on the HPC dialog systems (login18-1.hpc.itc.rwth-aachen.de etc.). A single user can now only use about 25% of the available main memory, i.e. 96GB for most of our servers. On login18-x-1 and login18-x-2, as before, only 16 GB are available to each user.
Release Notes Version 2.3.0
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Toasts for notifications have been improved, e.g., after deleting favorites, so that you can now “hold” them and they do not disappear immediately
- If you go to a page such as the calendar without being logged in to the app (without SSO login), you will now be redirected back to that page after completing the login process (previously, you were redirected to the dashboard).
- In Moodle:
- for assessments, the maximum achiveable score is now also displayed
- in the download center, labels were previously displayed as files that could be downloaded; this was not desired and they are no longer displayed.
- Minor color adjustments
- Minor bug fixes, e.g., when displaying the loading animation.
