FAS Research Computing - Monthly maintenance - Monday November 4th, 2024 from 7am-11am – Maintenance details

Status page for the Harvard FAS Research Computing cluster and other resources.

Cluster Utilization (VPN and FASRC login required): Cannon | FASSE | Academic


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Monthly maintenance - Monday November 4th, 2024 from 7am-11am

Completed
Scheduled for November 04, 2024 at 12:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 2:45 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 2:45 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 2:45 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 2:45 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 2:45 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 2:45 PM

Updates
  • Completed
    November 04, 2024 at 2:45 PM
    Completed
    November 04, 2024 at 2:45 PM

    Maintenance is complete.

  • Update
    November 04, 2024 at 1:21 PM
    In progress
    November 04, 2024 at 1:21 PM

    Maintenance began 7am.

  • In progress
    November 04, 2024 at 12:00 PM
    In progress
    November 04, 2024 at 12:00 PM

    FASRC monthly maintenance will occur Monday November 4th, 2024 from 7am-11am

    NOTICES

    MAINTENANCE TASKS

    Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

    FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

    • Decommission of boslogin01-04 and holylogin01-04

      • Audience: All cluster users 

      • Impact: New login nodes have been in place for some time now and it's time to decommission the older ones and reclaim the rack space. If you have crons or hardcoded login (vscode, etc) please update before Nov. 4th.

    • Slurm 24.05.4 Upgrade

      • Audience: All cluster users 

      • Impact: The scheduler will be updated to version 24.05.4 - Jobs will be paused

    • Login and OOD node reboots

      • Audience: Anyone logged into a FASRC Cannon or FASSE login node or OOD/VDI node

      • Impact: These 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 and does 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/cheduled maintenance during that time.