FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance - Monday February 3rd, 2025 from 7am-11am – Maintenance details

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FASRC monthly maintenance - Monday February 3rd, 2025 from 7am-11am

Completed
Scheduled for February 03, 2025 at 12:00 PM – 4:00 PMUTC

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Updates
  • Completed
    February 03, 2025 at 4:00 PMUTC
    Completed
    February 03, 2025 at 4:00 PMUTC
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • In progress
    February 03, 2025 at 12:00 PMUTC
    In progress
    February 03, 2025 at 12:00 PMUTC
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    February 03, 2025 at 12:00 PMUTC
    Planned
    February 03, 2025 at 12:00 PMUTC

    NOTICES

    • holyscratch01, which was replaced by netscratch and has been read-only since Dec 2, 2024, will be unmounted from the cluster and decommissioned.

    • 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 maintenance, incidents, and their resolution at https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/ (click Get Updates for options).

    • Upcoming holidays: Presidents' Day, Monday Feb. 17, 2025 

    MAINTENANCE TASKS
    Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
    FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

    • Slurm Upgrade to 24.11.1

      • Audience: All cluster users

      • Impact: Jobs and the scheduler will be paused during this upgrade

    • Unmount /n/holyscratch01

      • Audience: All cluster users

      • Impact: All users should have already moved to using /n/netscratch

    • Network maintenance

      • Audience: All FASRC data centers

      • Impact: No notiecable impact expected

    • OOD node maintenance

      • Audience: OOD (Open OnDemand/VDI) users

      • Impact: OOD nodes will be rebooted during this maintenance window

    • Login node reboots

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

      • Impact: Login nodes will rebooted during this maintenance window

    • Netscratch 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.

    Thank you,
    FAS Research Computing
    https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
    https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/    aintenance during that time.

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https://portal.rc.fas.harvard.edu or email rchelp@rc.fas.harvard.edu