FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance August 3rd, 2026 9am-3pm – Maintenance details

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FASRC monthly maintenance August 3rd, 2026 9am-3pm

Completed
Scheduled for August 03, 2026 at 1:05 PM – 7:10 PMUTC

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 1:05 PM to 7:10 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 1:05 PM to 7:10 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 1:05 PM to 7:10 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 1:05 PM to 7:10 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 1:05 PM to 7:10 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 1:05 PM to 7:10 PM

Updates
  • Completed
    August 03, 2026 at 7:10 PMUTC
    Completed
    August 03, 2026 at 7:10 PMUTC
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • In progress
    August 03, 2026 at 1:05 PMUTC
    In progress
    August 03, 2026 at 1:05 PMUTC
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    July 15, 2026 at 5:57 PMUTC
    Planned
    July 15, 2026 at 5:57 PMUTC

    FASRC monthly maintenance will take place on August 3rd, 2026. Our maintenance tasks should be completed between 9am-3pm.

    Note: This maintenance takes place at the same time as the firewall cutover [details] and all running jobs will be canceled on the morning of August 3rd. Note the longer duration of this maintenance period: 9am-3pm

    NOTICES:

    MAINTENANCE TASKS

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

    • Slurm Upgrade to 26.05.2

      • Audience: Cluster

      • Impact: The cluster will be paused during this maintenance

    • two-factor.rc.fas.harvard.edu OpenAuth cut-over to new server

      • Audience: New accounts or anyone requesting an OpenAuth token

      • Impact: two-factor will be unavailable while moving to a new server

    • Login node down/reboots

      • Audience: All login nodes

      • Impact: Login nodes will be unavailable until after maintenance

    • OOD/Open OnDemand down/reboots

      • Audience: All OOD users

      • Impact: OOD will be unavailable until after maintenance

    • Lab storage cutover

      • Audience; Anyone who was contacted about this

      • Impact: See email(s) from RDM to affected users

    • Netscratch 90-day retention cleanup

      • Audience; All netscratch users

      • Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed per our scratch policy. Please note that this cleanup can happen at any time, not just during maintenance.

    Thank you,
    FAS Research Computing
    https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
    https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/

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