FAS Research Computing - Monthly Maintenance July 1st, 2024 from 7am-11am – Maintenance details
All systems operational
Status page for the Harvard FAS Research Computing cluster and other resources.
WINTER BREAK: Harvard and FASRC will be closed for winter break as of Sat. Dec 21st, 2024. We will
return on Jan. 2nd, 2025. We will monitor for critical issues. All other work will be deferred until we return.
Cluster Utilization (VPN and FASRC login required): Cannon | FASSE
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Monthly Maintenance July 1st, 2024 from 7am-11am
Completed
Scheduled for July 01, 2024 at 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Affects
Cannon Cluster
SLURM Scheduler - Cannon
Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)
Boston Compute Nodes
GPU nodes (Holyoke)
seas_compute
Updates
Completed
July 01, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Completed
July 01, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Maintenance has completed successfully
In progress
July 01, 2024 at 11:00 AM
In progress
July 01, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Maintenance is now in progress
Planned
July 01, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Planned
July 01, 2024 at 11:00 AM
NOTICES
TRAINING: 2024 training sessions are available. Topics include new user training as well as advanced topics. To see current and future training sessions, view our training calendar at: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/
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MAINTENANCE TASKS
Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
Slurm scheduler upgrade -- Audience: All cluster users -- Impact: The schedulers will be upgraded to Slurm version 23.11.8. All jobs will be paused to accommodate this upgrade and will resume once complete.
PMIx upgrade - DEFERRED -- This upgrade has been deferred due to issues during testing
-- Audience: All MPI/OpenMP jobs -- Impact: PMIx API will be upgraded to version 5.0.2 while jobs are paused for the Slurm upgrade
Login node and Open OnDemand (OOD/VDI) reboots -- Audience: Anyone logged into a login node or VDI/OOD node -- Impact: Login and VDI/OOD nodes will rebooted during this maintenance window
Scratch cleanup ( https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/policy-scratch/ ) -- Audience: Cluster users -- Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed. Please note that retention cleanup can run at any time, not just during the maintenance window.
