FAS Research Computing - 2025 MGHPCC power downtime June 2-4, 2025 – Maintenance details

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2025 MGHPCC power downtime June 2-4, 2025

Completed
Scheduled for June 02, 2025 at 1:00 PM – June 05, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Updates
  • Completed
    June 05, 2025 at 1:00 PM
    Completed
    June 05, 2025 at 1:00 PM
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • In progress
    June 02, 2025 at 1:00 PM
    In progress
    June 02, 2025 at 1:00 PM
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    June 02, 2025 at 1:00 PM
    Planned
    June 02, 2025 at 1:00 PM

    The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled. 
    This year's power downtime will take place on Tuesday June 3, 2025. 

    This will require FASRC to begin shutdown of our systems beginning at 9AM on Monday, June 2nd.
    We have worked to reduce the total outage time this year.
    We will begin power-up on Wednesday June 4th with an expected return to full service by 9AM Thursday June 5th.

    • Monday June 2nd -  Power-down begins at 9AM

    • Tuesday June 3rd - Power out at MGHPCC

    • Wednesday June 4th - Maintenance tasks and then power-up begins

    • Thursday June 5th - Expected return to full service by 9AM

    Maintenance:
    During this downtime, Holylabs (/n/holylabs) will move to new hardware.
    Starfish, Coldfront, and the Portal will be unavailable during the downtime.

    For more details including a graphical timeline, please see: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025-mghpcc-power-downtime/

    Updates will be posted here on our status page: https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
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