FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance - Monday March 3rd, 2025 from 9am-1pm – Maintenance details

System Under Maintenance

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

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Monthly maintenance occurs on the first Monday of the month (except holidays).

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FASRC monthly maintenance - Monday March 3rd, 2025 from 9am-1pm

Completed
Scheduled for March 03, 2025 at 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Updates
  • Update
    March 03, 2025 at 6:00 PM
    Completed
    March 03, 2025 at 6:00 PM
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • Completed
    March 03, 2025 at 6:00 PM
    Completed
    March 03, 2025 at 6:00 PM
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • In progress
    March 03, 2025 at 2:00 PM
    In progress
    March 03, 2025 at 2:00 PM
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    March 03, 2025 at 2:00 PM
    Planned
    March 03, 2025 at 2:00 PM

    PLEASE NOTE - New time window going forward - 9am-1pm

    FASRC monthly maintenance will take place Monday March 3rd, 2025 from 9am-1pm

    NOTICES

    • 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: Memorial Day - Monday, May 26

    • You can subscribe to our status page using the Get Updates button in the upper right

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

    • Slurm Upgrade to 24.11.2 - Crucial Update

      • Audience: All cluster users

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

    • Open Ondemand (OOD) reboots

      • Audience: All OOD users

      • Impact: All Open OnDemand (aka OOD/VDI/RCOOD) nodes will be rebooted

    • Login node reboots

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

      • Impact: Login nodes will rebooted during this maintenance window

    • bos-Isilon firmware updates

      • Audience: bos-isilon users

      • Impact: No noticeable impact for storage users

    • Netscratch retention/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://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
    https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/

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