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

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.