Dear VSC users, we would like to inform you about some important news and changes coming up soon at the VSC. First, to make the queues more efficient and ideally decrease waiting times, the default runtime of jobs will be reduced to 1 day. The maximum time is still unchanged at 3 days, but if no --time is given, a job will end after 24 hours. Additionally, we encourage you to also use parameter --time-min if possible – this is the expected minimum runtime of your job. Both these parameters will increase the chances of your job to start earlier. For example, if you have a job that needs at least 6 hours but might run up to 2 days, add these parameters: #SBATCH --time=2-00:00:00 #SBATCH --time-min=06:00:00 The changes will go into effect on effect on January 7th 2025. Second, as also requested by several users, we have created the ability for VSC users to engage in a chat-space. There users can interact and maybe help each other, and, as time permits, some of us will also look into it from time to time. The chat-space is in TUmatrix and can be found and joined here: https://matrix.tuwien.ac.at/#/room/#vsc:tuwien.ac.at. If your institution has Matrix, you can use your account there, otherwise you can make an account at https://matrix.org/try-matrix/. Please note that this will not be a support chat – the support is still given via the support mail address or the support webpage. The chat rooms are already available for you to access. Furthermore, a new and vastly improved documentation is now online at https://docs.vsc.ac.at/ – there are some items still missing or not fully covered yet, but all the basic information is there. As the missing details are added by us, it will be replacing the current VSC wiki completely. Best regards, VSC-Team