FASRC monthly maintenance will take place Monday January 8th, 2024 from 7am-11am
NOTICES
- 2024 training sessions will be available soon. Topics will include New User Training, Getting Started on FASRC with CLI, Getting Started on FASRC with OpenOnDemand, Installing and using software, GPU Computing, Advanced cluster usage, Parallel job workflows, and other advanced topics. To see current and future training sessions, view our calendar at: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/
MAINTENANCE TASKS
Cannon cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
FASSE cluster will be paused during this maintenance?: YES
scratch controller replacement
-- Audience: All cluster users
-- Impact: Scratch (holyscratch01) will be unavailable in the maintenance window
-- Jobs will be paused to accommodate this maintenance
FASSE Open OnDemand (OOD/VDI) upgrade to V3
-- Audience: All FASSE users of FASRC Open OnDemand/VDI
-- Impact: FASSE OOD new connections will be unavailable in the maintenance window
-- FASSE OOD disconnects of existing session could occur within the maintenance window but are not expected
VPN firmware updates
-- Audience: All users of FASRC VPN
-- Impact: No major impact expected, but brief disconnects will occur
Disable NTLMv1 and LM protocols
-- Audience: FASRC authentication
-- Impact: No major impact expected, these protocols should not be in use by any services
Login node and 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
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/
