Monthly cluster maintenance, Monday Jan 11, 2021 7am-11am
Monthly cluster maintenance will occur on Monday Jan. 11th, 2021 from 7am-11am.
NOTICES
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Please note that our office hours (Wednesdays 12pm -3pm) are still online.
Details: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/training/office-hours/
GENERAL MAINTENANCE
- Slurm upgrade (v 20.11.1)
- Audience: All cluster users
- Impact: Jobs will be paused during upgrade
- Software modules moved to new filesystem
- /n/sw will move to our new Isilon storage
- Audience: All cluster users
- Impact: Speed of loading should improve. Change will be transparent and immediate once maintenance completes.
- Login/VDI node reboots
- Audience: Anyone logged into a a login node or VDI/OOD node
- Impact: Login and VDI/OOD nodes will be unavailable while rebooting
- Scratch cleanup ( https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/policy-scratch/ )
- Audience: Cluster users
- Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed.
- Reminder: Scratch 90-day file retention purging runs occur regularly not just during maintenance periods.
Thanks,
FAS Research Computing
https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu
https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu
https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu
Reminder: Scratch 90-day file retention purging runs occur regularly not just during maintenance periods.