FAS Research Computing - FASRC monthly maintenance Monday May 5th, 2025 from 9am-1pm – Maintenance details

Status page for the Harvard FAS Research Computing cluster and other resources.

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FASRC monthly maintenance Monday May 5th, 2025 from 9am-1pm

Planned
Scheduled for May 05, 2025 at 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Affects

Cannon Cluster

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM

SLURM Scheduler - Cannon

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Cannon Compute Cluster (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Boston Compute Nodes

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM

GPU nodes (Holyoke)

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM

seas_compute

Under maintenance from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Updates
  • Planned
    May 05, 2025 at 1:00 PM
    Planned
    May 05, 2025 at 1:00 PM

    FASRC monthly maintenance will take place Monday May 5th, 2025 from 9am-1pm

    NOTICES

    • MGHPCC power work May 21-23 - Some partitions will be at half capacity. Details on our Status Page

    • Annual Holyoke/MGHPCC power downtime will take place June 2-4. Details on our website and status page.

    MAINTENANCE TASKS
    Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
    FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES

    • Slurm Upgrade to 24.11.4

      • Audience: All cluster users

      • Impact: Jobs and the scheduler will be paused during this upgrade

    • Infiniband subnet expansion

      • Audience: Most FASRC compute and storage resources

      • Impact: Brief network interrupts, but scheduler will already be paused

    • OOD node reboots

      • Audience: OOD (Open OnDemand/VDI) users

      • Impact: OOD nodes will be rebooted during this maintenance window

    • Login node reboots

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

      • Impact: All login nodes will rebooted at the end of this maintenance window.

    • Netscratch 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.

    Thank you,
    FAS Research Computing
    https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/
    https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/