FAS Research Computing - FASRC Monthly Maintenance - Monday September 9th, 2024 from 7am-11am – Maintenance details

NOTICES

• Holiday: Monday September 2nd, 2024 is a university holiday (Labor Day)

• 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 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?: YES

FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

• Upgrade Slurm to version 24.05.3

  • Audience: OOD/VDI users

  • Impact:  Jobs will be paused during the upgrade and will resume once the upgrade is complete.

• Upgrade Open OnDemand (OOD/VDI) to version 3.1.7

  • Audience: All cluster users

  • Impact: Any new features/changes will be visible at next new OOD session startup. However, see above re: jobs paused during Slurm upgrade.

• 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/