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

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:

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).

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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