FAS Research Computing - Geschichte beachten

Teilweise herabgesetzte Leistung festgestellt

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

Cluster Utilization (VPN and FASRC login required): Cannon | FASSE


Please scroll down to see details on any Incidents or maintenance notices.
Monthly maintenance occurs on the first Monday of the month (except holidays).

GETTING HELP
Documentation: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu | Account Portal https://portal.rc.fas.harvard.edu
Email: rchelp@rc.fas.harvard.edu | Support Hours

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Beeinträchtigte Leistung

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon - Beeinträchtigte Leistung

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke) - Beeinträchtigte Leistung

Boston Compute Nodes - Beeinträchtigte Leistung

GPU nodes (Holyoke) - Beeinträchtigte Leistung

seas_compute - Beeinträchtigte Leistung

Funktionsfähig

SLURM Scheduler - FASSE - Funktionsfähig

FASSE Compute Cluster (Holyoke) - Funktionsfähig

Funktionsfähig

Kempner Cluster CPU - Funktionsfähig

Kempner Cluster GPU - Funktionsfähig

Funktionsfähig

FASSE login nodes - Funktionsfähig

Funktionsfähig

Cannon Open OnDemand/VDI - Funktionsfähig

FASSE Open OnDemand/VDI - Funktionsfähig

Funktionsfähig

Netscratch (Global Scratch) - Funktionsfähig

Home Directory Storage - Boston - Funktionsfähig

Tape - (Tier 3) - Funktionsfähig

Holylabs - Funktionsfähig

Isilon Storage Holyoke (Tier 1) - Funktionsfähig

Holystore01 (Tier 0) - Funktionsfähig

HolyLFS04 (Tier 0) - Funktionsfähig

HolyLFS05 (Tier 0) - Funktionsfähig

HolyLFS06 (Tier 0) - Funktionsfähig

Holyoke Tier 2 NFS (new) - Funktionsfähig

Holyoke Specialty Storage - Funktionsfähig

holECS - Funktionsfähig

Isilon Storage Boston (Tier 1) - Funktionsfähig

BosLFS02 (Tier 0) - Funktionsfähig

Boston Tier 2 NFS (new) - Funktionsfähig

CEPH Storage Boston (Tier 2) - Funktionsfähig

Boston Specialty Storage - Funktionsfähig

bosECS - Funktionsfähig

Samba Cluster - Funktionsfähig

Globus Data Transfer - Funktionsfähig

Geschichte beachten

Juni 2026

Cluster CVMFS issue causing node closure
  • Überprüfung
    Überprüfung

    We have rolled out a fix and are currently monitoring the result.

    Any nodes still in Kill Task Fail will need to fully drain of running jobs first before being reopened to ensure there are no orphaned processes.

    PLEASE NOTE: This will take quite some time to fully resolve as jobs are still running on these nodes. But the nodes cannot accept new jobs until cleared.

    Currently # of potentially impacted nodes: 523 (number will update periodically)

  • Analyse
    Analyse

    We are currently investigating this incident. Due to a CVMFS mount issue, some nodes are being closed and labelled as "Kill task fail"
    WIP

holylfs06 degraded
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Analyse
    Analyse
    holylfs06 storage may be slow or unresponsive. We are investigating this issue.
2026 MGHPCC power downtime June 15-18, 2026
  • Abgeschlossen
    Juni 18, 2026 um 21:15
    Abgeschlossen
    Juni 18, 2026 um 21:15

    The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has completed.

    The clusters and storage are back online and login nodes and OOD nodes are now available.

    If you have an issue/need help, please send a ticket to rchelp@rc.fas.harvard.edu with details.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Tomorrow, June 19th is a university holiday. FASRC staff will return Monday to address any lingering issues and any new tickets.

  • Update
    Juni 18, 2026 um 20:45
    Update
    Juni 18, 2026 um 20:45

    Power-up is nearly complete, but a delay earlier in the day has us slightly behind.

    New ETA is 6PM.

  • Update
    Juni 18, 2026 um 12:16
    Update
    Juni 18, 2026 um 12:16

    MGHPCC has completed their maintenance and restored power to the facility.

    FASRC will now begin the power-up process. Please be aware that this takes several hours.

    We will update this status once complete.

    NOTE: A reminder that tomorrow (Friday) is a university holiday.

  • In Bearbeitung
    Juni 15, 2026 um 13:00
    In Bearbeitung
    Juni 15, 2026 um 13:00
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Geplant
    Juni 15, 2026 um 13:00
    Geplant
    Juni 15, 2026 um 13:00

    The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled by the facility. This year's power downtime will take place on Tuesday June  15th - 18th, 2025.  There will be no June monthly maintenance as a result.

    Since the facility will be powered down for two days this year, we will not be performing the usual maintenance tasks. 
    That said, networking and other key infrastructure will be doing maintenance.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: FASRC storage at both Holyoke and Boston will be affected and should not be expected to be available throughout the downtime. Please plan ahead accordingly.

    • Monday June 15th -  Power-down begins at 9AM

    • Tuesday June 16th - Power out at MGHPCC

    • Wednesday June 17th - Power out at MGHPCC

    • Thursday June 18th - Expected return to full service by 5PM

    • Friday June 19th - Please note that June 19th is a university holiday

     

    Monday June 15th -  Power-down begins at 9AM Tuesday June 16th - Power out at MGHPCC Wednesday June 17th - Power out at MGHPCC Thursday June 18th - Expected return to full service by 5PM

    For more detailed information and follow-up, please see:
    https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/mghpcc-yearly-shutdown or this Status Page

holylfs06 degraded
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst
    This incident has been resolved.
  • Analyse
    Analyse

    Holylfs06 storage may be slow or unresponsive

    We are currently investigating this incident.

Portal unavailable
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst

    The Portal website should be accessible for all now.

    This incident has been resolved.

  • Analyse
    Analyse

    There is an SSL issue with the Portal which will cause an error for anyone attempting to connect.

    Investigating.

Mai 2026

Cannon cluster down
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst

    Slurm crashed on 4:30p on Friday due to a user running a large sacct query against the Slurm database. This caused the database host to run out of memory and crash the scheduler. To prevent this from reoccurring we are reducing the time range that users are permitted to query at one time to 7 days. Thus if you need to cover a month you would need to query in four 7 day increments.

    We do ask users to be judicious in their querying of the Slurm. Only ask for those fields that you require. Please also ensure any AI agents you have running limit their queries appropriately.

  • Identifizierung
    Identifizierung

    To temporarily stabilize the situation, we have reduced the maximum query time for sacct and other Slurm commands to be 1 day. We have filed a ticket with SchedMD to further analyze the issue.

    The cluster is back up and the scheduler is accepting new jobs.

    We will continue to monitor for emergencies over the weekend, and resume in-depth troubleshooting on Monday.

  • Analyse
    Analyse

    The Slurm scheduler is experiencing an error which is impacting jobs. The Cannon cluster will be inaccessible while we troubleshoot.

    We are currently investigating this incident.

Account approvals down
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst

    This incident has been resolved. Login is again available for approvals/onboarding.

  • Analyse
    Analyse

    Account approvals through Portal are not available at this time.

    We are currently investigating this incident.

FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is back up
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst
    FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is back up. This incident was automatically resolved by Instatus monitoring.
  • Analyse
    Analyse
    FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is down at the moment. This incident was automatically created by Instatus monitoring.
FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is back up
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst
    FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is back up. This incident was automatically resolved by Instatus monitoring.
  • Analyse
    Analyse
    FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is down at the moment. This incident was automatically created by Instatus monitoring.
FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is back up
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst
    FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is back up. This incident was automatically resolved by Instatus monitoring.
  • Analyse
    Analyse
    FASRC VPN (Cambridge) is down at the moment. This incident was automatically created by Instatus monitoring.

Apr. 2026

OpenOnDemand maintenance
  • Abgeschlossen
    April 30, 2026 um 14:00
    Abgeschlossen
    April 30, 2026 um 14:00
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • In Bearbeitung
    April 30, 2026 um 12:00
    In Bearbeitung
    April 30, 2026 um 12:00
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Geplant
    April 30, 2026 um 12:00
    Geplant
    April 30, 2026 um 12:00

    At 8am on Thursday April 30th we will be upgrading from Open OnDemand version 4.0.7 to 4.1.4 on both the Cannon and FASSE clusters.

    This is not expected to impact running jobs.

    This upgrade adds the Jobs->Project Manager menu item and fixes an issue that affected access to the Clusters->Shell Access menu item when using Firefox.

login.rc.fas.harvard.edu is responding normally
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst
    \[login.rc.fas.harvard.edu\](http://login.rc.fas.harvard.edu) is responding normally. This incident was automatically resolved.
  • Analyse
    Analyse
    login.rc.fas.harvard.edu is not responding normally. This incident was automatically created.
Login and OOD node access restricted due to serious security issue - No ETA
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst

    The cluster has been rebooted and all nodes, including login and OOD, have been patched.

    The scheduler is re-opened and jobs which were preempted/requeued have priority for re-scheduling.

    Some non-standard, lab-owned nodes may still require patching. The owners of these machines may be contacted about this.

    Thank you for your patience. This is a global issue and is being addressed at centers everywhere.

  • Update
    Update

    To mitigate this exploit we will need to restart -all nodes- on the cluster.

    This will begin at 1PM and run until all nodes have restarted (no ETA).

    This will mean any un-finished jobs will be terminated. There is no way to avoid this.

    We will then be validating the fix before re-opening the login. OOD nodes, and scheduler.

    Next steps and updates will be posted here.

  • Update
    Update

    We are developing a plan of attack to mitigate this exploit. Please know that this is a very serious issue and so we are treating it as such. Thank you for your understanding.

    We are currently awaiting further information from the Redhat/Fedora/Rocky community but building a plan in the meantime with the information we have. More details to follow as we can share them.

    If you need to access storage (except scratch and home directories), Globus is still online and available. But again, login nodes and OOD are not available.

  • Identifizierung
    Identifizierung

    Due to a serious in-the-wild exploit which can compromise Fedora-based Linux distributions including Rocky, which is used on the cluster, we need to restrict access. All login and OOD nodes are shut down until a fix can be put in place. Jobs running on the cluster will continue running.

    No ETA, There is not fix at this time. We will update our status page in the morning once we have more information or a fix to roll out.

    This is a serious exploit and we do not take this measure lightly. Please follow this status page for updates and eventual resolution.

holylfs06 down
  • Gelöst
    Gelöst

    Holylfs06 is accessible again.

    This incident has been resolved.

  • Identifizierung
    Identifizierung
    Holylfs06 storage is down. We are investigating. More details as they are known.
Website security maintenance (www.rc and docs.rc) 4-28-26 1pm
  • Abgeschlossen
    April 28, 2026 um 17:16
    Abgeschlossen
    April 28, 2026 um 17:16

    Website maintenance has completed successfully.

  • In Bearbeitung
    April 28, 2026 um 17:00
    In Bearbeitung
    April 28, 2026 um 17:00
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Geplant
    April 28, 2026 um 17:00
    Geplant
    April 28, 2026 um 17:00

    Security updates are required for www.rc.fas.harvard.edu and docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu
    This work will take place today between 1pm and 2pm
    Both sites will be down for very short periods during the updates.

Apr. 2026 zu Juni 2026

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https://portal.rc.fas.harvard.edu or email rchelp@rc.fas.harvard.edu