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FASRC Monthly maintenance August 7, 2023 7am-1pm *NOTE EXTENDED TIME*

Completed
Scheduled for August 07, 2023 at 11:00 AM – 1:42 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster
SLURM Scheduler - Cannon
Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)
Boston Compute Nodes
GPU nodes (Holyoke)
SEAS compute partition
Updates
  • Completed
    August 07, 2023 at 1:42 PM
    Completed
    August 07, 2023 at 1:42 PM

    Due to a vendor error we were unable to complete holyscratch01 disk shelf replacement. We will work with the vendor to reschedule.

    All other maintenance tasks have completed.

  • In progress
    August 07, 2023 at 11:00 AM
    In progress
    August 07, 2023 at 11:00 AM

    Maintenance is now in progress

  • Planned
    August 07, 2023 at 11:00 AM
    Planned
    August 07, 2023 at 11:00 AM

    August maintenance will run August 7, 2023 from 7am-1pm.

    Please note the extended timeframe.
    See tasks section below for explanation.

    NOTICES

    • CentOS 7 Support EOL: We will be dropping support for CentOS 7 support in September. If your machine or VM is CentOS 7 and connects with Slurm please contact FASRC to discuss options.

    • Test Partition Changes: We are changing test partitions based on changing needs and increasing max time to 12hrs instead of 8 hrs. A reminder that this partition is not for running jobs.

    MAINTENANCE TASKS

    • holyscratch01 Disk Shelf Replacement  All Jobs Will Be Paused
      -- Audience : All cluster and scratch users - Cannon and FASSE
      -- Impact:  Hardware issues with holyscratch01 necessitate the replacement of one of the disk shelves. As a result all jobs and scratch will need to be paused for the duration.
      -- ETA: This swap is expected to take 3-4 hours, but pausing the cluster, vendor interactions, and allowing a margin for over-run requires that we extend maintenance by 2 hours  (7am-1pm)

    • Login node and OOD/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  

    • Scratch cleanup ( https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/policy-scratch/ )
      -- Audience: Cluster users
      -- Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed.

    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/

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