Regular monthly maintenance will take place Monday November 1st, 2021 7-11am

NOTICES

• ISILON (Tier1) maintenance - To address stability and security concerns, we will be remounting NFS Isilon shares on the cluster. Lab shares on bos-isilon and holy-isilon will be affected. (Samba mounts will not be affected.) This includes any shares mounted under /net/rcstorenfs/i, /net/rcstorenfs02, /net/bos-isilon, /net/bos-nfsisilon, /net/holy-nfsisilon, and /net/holy-isilon
  If you are unsure if this affects your lab share, cd to your share and run df --output=target .
  The output will contain your share's mount point. Example output for affected share on /net/rcstorenfs:

    $ cd /n/jharvard_lab  
    $ df --output=target .  
    Mounted on  
    /net/rcstorenfs/ifs/rc_labs/jharvard_lab  

• IQSS - Sid Open OnDemand MVP beta - This environment is in Beta. It will be accessible by invite only and will run in parallel with the default Open OnDemand FASSE dashboard. Training sessions available: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

• New Storage Service Center launched FY22 (July 1st 2021). See Billing FAQ https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/policy/billing-faq/ and list of storage tiers https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/services/data-storage/. Individual PIs will be contacted about setting up their billing.

• If you have a 2021/2021 publication that made use of the FASRC cluster and you don't find it listed here, please do let us know: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/cluster/publications/

GENERAL MAINTENANCE

• SLURM 21.08 upgrade - The scheduler will be upgraded to 21.08 - Find out about new features here https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-users/2021-August/007779.html
  -- Audience: All cluster user
  -- Impact: Jobs will be paused during the upgrade. The scheduler will be briefly unavailable during upgrade.
• (IQSS) Deploying the Sid MVP Beta to the FAS SE HPC cluster
  -- Audience: IQSS SID beta users
  -- Impact: We do not expect any impact to other users of the FASSE system.
• Login node and VDI node reboots
  -- Audience: Anyone logged into a a login node or VDI/OOD node
  -- Impact: Login and VDI/OOD nodes will be unavailable while updating and rebooting
• Scratch cleanup ( https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/policy-scratch/ )
  -- Audience: Cluster users
  -- Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed.

Reminder: Scratch 90-day file retention purging runs occur regularly not just during maintenance periods.

Thanks,
FAS Research Computing
https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu
https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu
https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu