Experiencing partially degraded performance

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

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


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
https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu | https://portal.rc.fas.harvard.edu | Email: rchelp@rc.fas.harvard.edu

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Monthly Maintenance Feb. 6th, 2023 7am-11am

Completed
Scheduled for February 06, 2023 at 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Affects

Login Nodes
Login Nodes - Boston
Login Nodes - Holyoke
FASSE login nodes
VDI/OpenOnDemand
Cannon VDI (Open OnDemand)
Updates
  • Completed
    February 06, 2023 at 4:00 PM
    Completed
    February 06, 2023 at 4:00 PM

    Maintenance has completed successfully

  • In progress
    February 06, 2023 at 12:00 PM
    In progress
    February 06, 2023 at 12:00 PM

    Maintenance is now in progress

  • Planned
    February 06, 2023 at 12:00 PM
    Planned
    February 06, 2023 at 12:00 PM

    NOTICES

    GPU PARTITIONS
    The gpu_test partition is back in service. Job limits are now 64 cores, 8 GPU's, and 750G of RAM. Users can run up to 2 jobs.

    HOLIDAY NOTICE
    February 20th is a university holiday (Presidents' Day)

    GENERAL MAINTENANCE

    • OnDemand Version upgrade to 2.0.29
      Audience: VDI/OpenOnDemand users
      Impact: VDI will be unavailable during this and the above Slurm upgrade

    • Domain controller updates
      Audience: All cluster
      Impact: Could briefly impact some older systems, otherwise no impact expected

    • Login node and VDI node reboots and firmware updates
      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
    Department and Service Catalog: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
    Documentation: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
    Status Page: https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/

For issues not shown here, please contact FASRC via
https://portal.rc.fas.harvard.edu or email rchelp@rc.fas.harvard.edu