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FASRC monthly maintenance will take place on July 6th 2026. Our maintenance tasks should be completed between 9am-1pm.

Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: NO
FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: NO

NOTICES:

• Friday July 3rd is a university holiday (independence Day observed)

• Training: Upcoming training from FASRC and other sources can be found on our Training Calendar. at https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

• Status Page: You can subscribe to our status to receive notifications of maintenance, incidents, and their resolution at https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/ (click Get Updates for options).

• We'd love to hear success stories about your or your lab's use of FASRC. Submit your story here.

MAINTENANCE TASKS

• Domain controller replacement

  • Audience: Internal

  • Impact: None. End users should not see any impact.

• Reboot drained nodes in error state

  • Audience: Cluster nodes with errors.

  • Impact: These nodes will have been drained already in preparation. No impact on jobs on the day and the affected nodes will return to service in their respective partitions after the maintenance period.

• OOD/Open OnDemand reboots

  • Audience: All OOD users, reboot of the head nodes.

  • Impact: Running sessions will not be affected.

• Login node reboots

  • Audience; All login node users.

  • Impact: Login nodes will reboot during the maintenance window.

• Netscratch 90-day retention cleanup

  • Audience; All netscratch users

  • Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed per our scratch policy. Please note that this cleanup can happen at any time, not just during maintenance.

Thank you,
FAS Research Computing
https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/

The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled by the facility. This year's power downtime will take place on Tuesday June  15th - 18th, 2025.  There will be no June monthly maintenance as a result.

Since the facility will be powered down for two days this year, we will not be performing the usual maintenance tasks. 
That said, networking and other key infrastructure will be doing maintenance.

IMPORTANT NOTE: FASRC storage at both Holyoke and Boston will be affected and should not be expected to be available throughout the downtime. Please plan ahead accordingly.

• Monday June 15th -  Power-down begins at 9AM

• Tuesday June 16th - Power out at MGHPCC

• Wednesday June 17th - Power out at MGHPCC

• Thursday June 18th - Expected return to full service by 5PM

• Friday June 19th - Please note that June 19th is a university holiday

For more detailed information and follow-up, please see:
https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/mghpcc-yearly-shutdown or this Status Page