FAS Research Computing - Boston Data Center Move – Jan. 12-14 (Phase 1) – Maintenance details

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Boston Data Center Move – Jan. 12-14 (Phase 1)

Completed
Scheduled for January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM – January 14, 2025 at 5:00 PMUTC

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 9:00 PM to 5:00 PM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 9:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 9:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 9:00 PM to 5:00 PM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 9:00 PM to 5:00 PM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 9:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Updates
  • Completed
    January 14, 2025 at 5:00 PMUTC
    Completed
    January 14, 2025 at 5:00 PMUTC
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • Update
    January 14, 2025 at 3:02 PMUTC
    Update
    January 14, 2025 at 3:02 PMUTC

    The cluster restart is in progress and on track for a return to service at noon.

    Please do note tomorrow's BOS-OSD move. A message was sent to all VM owners who will be affected. BOS-OSD Boston Tier2 virtual storage system move 1/15/25

    Also note that Phase 2 will run 1/21-1/23 but will not require the cluster to be down. A 2nd email and status page update will go up today.

  • In progress
    January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PMUTC
    In progress
    January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PMUTC
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PMUTC
    Planned
    January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PMUTC

    FAS Research Computing will be moving floors in our Boston data center in early 2025. This will require at least two downtimes to accomplish. The most impactful will be the first move of our Boston Isilon storage which houses all user home directories. 

    This first move will begin at 4PM  on Sunday, January 12th 2025 with an expected return to service at 12PM on Tuesday January 14th 2025. As home directories will be offline, this will necessitate a full stop of the cluster and all jobs. As login will not be possible without home directories, all login and Open OnDemand nodes and VMs (including older Tier 2, share names starts with "fs-") will also be offline.

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    TIMELINE

    • January 12th

      • 4pm: Begin. Close clusters, terminate jobs, shut down login and Open OnDemand nodes

    • January 13th:

      • All Day: Vendors and FASRC moves

    • January 14th

      • ETA 12pm: Reopen cluster

      • Some storage moves may continue through the day, including boslfs02, rcsmb*, lichtman

    Progress and any changes will be noted on our Status Page during this downtime.

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