FAS Research Computing - FASRC Monthly Maintenance - Monday October 7th, 2024 7am-11am – Maintenance details

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WINTER BREAK: Harvard and FASRC will be closed for winter break as of Sat. Dec 21st, 2024. We will return on Jan. 2nd, 2025. We will monitor for critical issues. All other work will be deferred until we return.

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FASRC Monthly Maintenance - Monday October 7th, 2024 7am-11am

Completed
Scheduled for October 07, 2024 at 11:00 AM – 1:09 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster
SLURM Scheduler - Cannon
Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)
Boston Compute Nodes
GPU nodes (Holyoke)
seas_compute
Updates
  • Completed
    October 07, 2024 at 1:09 PM
    Completed
    October 07, 2024 at 1:09 PM

    Maintenance complete. All tasks completed successfully.

  • In progress
    October 07, 2024 at 11:00 AM
    In progress
    October 07, 2024 at 11:00 AM
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    October 07, 2024 at 11:00 AM
    Planned
    October 07, 2024 at 11:00 AM

    FASRC monthly maintenance will occur Monday October 7th, 2024 from 7am-11am

    NOTICES

    X11 bug: There is currently a bug with X11 forwarding with Slurm that is preventing it from working. Not many people still use X11, it is slow and unreliable, but we want to get the word out to those who might, and also suggest they use Open OnDemand (aka OOD or VDI) instead. There is no ETA on a resolution to this bug.

    See also: https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/ood-remote-desktop-how-to-open-software/

    Training: Upcoming training from FASRC and other sources can be found on our Training Calendar. at https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

    Status Page: You can subscribe to our status to receive notifications of maintenance, incidents, and their resolution at https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/ (click Get Updates for options).

    Upcoming holidays: Columbus Day (Federal) / Indigenous Peoples’ Day (City of Cambridge) - Monday, Oct. 14

    MAINTENANCE TASKS

    Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

    FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

    Power work at MGHPCC for Row 8A

    -- Audience: All cluster users

    -- Impact: All jobs will be paused while this work is done. Jobs will resume once we have the all-clear from MGHPCC staff.

    Login node reboots

    -- Audience: Anyone logged into a FASRC Cannon or FASSE login node 

    -- Impact: Login 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 and does 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/

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