FAS Research Computing - Monthly Maintenance Monday April 1st, 2024 from 7am-11am – Maintenance details

NOTICES

• TRAINING:  2024 training sessions are available. Topics include new user training as well as  advanced topics. To see current and future training sessions, view our training alendar at: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

  For these and other events such as Office Hours, view our entire events calendar at: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-events/

• SURVEY:  If you have not yet, we invite you to fill out our 2024 user survey *approx. 15 minutes) and give us your feedback.  The survey is anonymous and asks questions about all of our services including cluster, storage, and support. The survey will be available  until April 12th.
  
  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3AmuOrrmBOHTCu

• STATUS PAGE:  You can subscribe to our status to receive notifications of any issues 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?: NO

FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: NO

Ticket System host move
-- Audience: All  users
-- Impact: The FASRC ticket system will be unavailable during maintenance while we move it to a new host. Emails sent during this time should pend but still reach the ticket system once it is back online.

Login node and Open OnDemand (OOD/VDI) reboots
-- Audience: Anyone logged into 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. Please note that retention cleanup can run at any time, not just during the maintenance window.  

Thanks,  

FAS Research Computing
Dept. Website: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
Documentation: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
Status Page: https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/