Regular monthly maintenance will take place Monday April 4th, 2022 7-11am

NOTICES

The yearly MGHPCC power downtime will occur May 24th. Shutdown will begin 6pm May 2rd and return to operation ETA is noon May 26th. For timeline and more details, see: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/events/mghpcc-power-shutdown-2022

New training sessions available - You can find a list and links to sign up here: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/

If you have a 2021/2022 publication that made use of the FASRC cluster and you don't find it listed here, please do let us know: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/cluster/publications/

FASRC has openings for a Systems Engineer and Systems Software Engineer. For more details and links to apply, see: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/about/employment/ 

GENERAL MAINTENANCE

• BOSLFS02 updates
  • Audience: any shares on boslfs02
  • Jobs will be paused during this work to prevent read/write failures - boslfs02 may be unresponsive during the maintenance window
• Slurm jobs paused
  • Audience: Cluster users
  • Impact: Jobs will be paused during the BOSLFS02 work to prevent read/write failures
• Partitions on old hardware being decommissioned
  • Audience: Owners of the partitions in question have been contacted and are aware
  • Impact:  jkreiger, holyseasgpu, and shakgpu partitions decommissioned
• Login node and 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 updating and 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.
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