FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance Monday April 7th, 2025 from 8am-1pm – Maintenance details

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FASRC monthly maintenance Monday April 7th, 2025 from 8am-1pm

Completed
Scheduled for April 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Updates
  • Completed
    April 07, 2025 at 7:00 PM
    Completed
    April 07, 2025 at 7:00 PM
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • Update
    April 07, 2025 at 4:40 PM
    In progress
    April 07, 2025 at 4:40 PM

    Vendor upgrades of the Isilon storage system are taking longer than expected. Cluster jobs are dependent on the Isilon, so we are not able to re-open until this work is completed.

    New ETA for end of maintenance is 3PM. Updates to come.

  • In progress
    April 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM
    In progress
    April 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    April 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM
    Planned
    April 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM

    FASRC monthly maintenance will take place Monday April 7th, 2025 from 9am-1pm

    NOTICES

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

    • Slurm Upgrade to 24.11.3

      • Audience: All cluster users

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

    • Holylogin chassis repair

      • Audience: All cluster users

      • Impact: Holylogin nodes will be unavailable

    • bos-isilon code upgrade

      • Audience: All shares on bos-isilon (Boston isilon/Tier1)

      • Impact: bos-isilon shares may be unavailable during reboots

    • Tier 2 NFS server updates (h-nfsxx, b-nfsxx shares)

      • Audience: All b-nfsxx and h-nfsxx Tier2 NFS shares

      • Impact:  Ahares unavailable during update/reboot

    • OOD node maintenance

      • Audience: OOD (Open OnDemand/VDI) users

      • Impact: OOD nodes will unavailable during this maintenance window

    • Portal database migration

    • Login node reboots

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

      • Impact: All 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/