FASRC Monthly Maintenance will occur April 3rd 2023 7am-11am
Please note that because of the June downtime, we will not hold monthly maintenance in May and July.

JUNE DOWNTIME AND OS/SOFTWARE CHANGES
The MGHPCC yearly power downtime will run June 5th-8th with return to full service the morning of Friday June 9th. For timeline and initially details on the downtime, our switch Rocky Linux, and changes to how we do software, please see: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/blog/2023-downtime/

Also see our Rocky 8 Transition Guide for information on the OS and upcoming test cluster. We will also offer training and consulting in the coming months (TBA). https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/rocky-8-transition-guide/

Notices about the downtime with links to training, docs, and FAQs will commence in a few weeks.

TRAINING CALENDAR
Upcoming new user training and other sessions can be found on our training calendar: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

APRIL 3rd MAINTENANCE

• Login node and VDI reboots
  -- Audience: Anyone logged into a a login node or VDI/OOD node
  -- Impact: Login and VDI/OOD nodes will rebooted during this maintenance window

• RCSMB server network changes
  -- Audience: Mounted Samba shares connected at "rcsmb.rc.fas.harvard.edu"
  -- Impact: None expected. The possibility of brief disconnects
  is possible but unlikely.

• Squid internet proxy update
  -- Audience: Any users/session/process using the internet proxy (https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/proxy-settings/)
  -- Impact: The proxy will be unavailable while updating

• Scratch cleanup ( https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/policy-scratch/ )
  -- Audience: Cluster users
  -- Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed.
  planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

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/