FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance - Monday August 5th, 2024 - 7am-11am – Maintenance details

FASRC monthly maintenance will take place Monday August 5th, 2024 from 7am-11am

NOTICES

Training

New training sessions available. Based on feedback we will soon begin a monthly training newsletter to keep everyone better informed about upcoming training. https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

Research Data Management

New data management resources and information from Sarah Marchese our new Research Data Manager:

• https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/services/research-data-management/

• https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/sharing-for-publications/

Training Session: Managing Research Data at FAS August 20, 2024 1-2pm

• https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

Status Page

You can subscribe to our status to receive notifications of any issues and their resolution at https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/ (click Get Updates for options).

MAINTENANCE TASKS

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

• Cutover to new Open OnDemand (OOD/VDI) nodes

  • Audience: All OOD users

  • Impact: This change will take place behind the scenes and should have no immediate visible impact on OOD jobs/users

• Login node reboots

  • Audience: Anyone logged into a FASRC login node 

  • Impact: Login 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. 

Thanks,  

FAS Research Computing  
Dept. Website: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/  
Documentation: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/  
Status Page: https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/