Winter maintenance - January 5th 8am-5pm - Maintenance details - FAS Research Computing

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Winter maintenance - January 5th 8am-5pm

Completed

Scheduled for January 05, 2022 at 1:00 PM – 7:56 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Boston Compute Nodes

Updates

Completed
January 05, 2022 at 7:56 PM
Completed
January 05, 2022 at 7:56 PM
Maintenance has completed successfully.
Update
January 05, 2022 at 7:52 PM
Update
January 05, 2022 at 7:52 PM
All data center work is complete.

Remaining tasks are:
- rebooting login and VDI nodes
- running scratch 90-day retention
In progress
January 05, 2022 at 5:51 PM
In progress
January 05, 2022 at 5:51 PM
Maintenance on-track.

Several smaller tasks are complete, but water cooling maintenance is the larger task today and still on-going.
Planned
January 05, 2022 at 1:00 PM
Planned
January 05, 2022 at 1:00 PM
Our Winter maintenance will occur on January 5th, from 8am - 5pm. This will be an all-day event and will require that jobs will be suspended for the duration and scratch (holyscratch01) will be offline for updates.

Storage firmware will also be updated that day, potentially in both data centers, so short storage interruptions may occur.

This is one of the two times each year we can plan maintenance around our Boston data center and also make changes that involve maintaining, modifying, or adding to the water-cooling system in MGHPCC.

Tasks will include:
- Water cooling maintenance in MGHPCC row 7-C
- Slurm 21.08.5 Upgrade (jobs paused during maintenance)
- Firmware upgrades
- Scratch (holyscratch01) maintenance (offline during maintenance)
- Login and VDI node reboots
- Scratch 90-day retention cleanup

FAS Research Computing - Winter maintenance - January 5th 8am-5pm – Maintenance details

Winter maintenance - January 5th 8am-5pm