Regular monthly maintenance will take place Monday Nov. 7th, 2022 7-11am

NOTICES

• GPU_TEST and REMOTEVIZ PARTITIONS
  Due to failed nodes, the gpu_test partition is down to 2 nodes and the (single node) remoteviz partition is down at the moment. We are working with the vendor to replace hardware, but this is still unresolved and no ETA at this time. Updates and QoS changes on our status page when we have them: https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu/cl8a94kcf17664hvoj8oksxanx
• GLOBUS PERSONAL CLIENT - UPDATE BY DEC 17
  If you are using the Globus Connect Personal client on your machine, please ensure you have updated and are running version 3.2 or greater by December 17th, 2022. You will not be able to use version 3.1 or below after that date.
  https://docs.globus.org/ca-update-2022/#globus_connect_personal
• TRAINING
  New training sessions, including monthly new user training, are available.
  You can find a list and links to sign up here:
  https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/
  - NERC informs us that they will be performing maintenance on Nov 2nd from 8am-12pm. If you use NERC's services, you can find more information on their status page: https://nerc.instatus.com/

GENERAL MAINTENANCE 

• 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.
• Network maintenance - *HIGH IMPACT POSSIBLE*
  • Audience: All users
  • Impact: Network maintenance will take place during this time and is expected to run the full 4 hours. Work on the firewalls and fibre links will be involved, so impact may be felt across both data centers.
• Samba admin node reboots
  • Audience: All users of Samba (desktop) mounts
  • Impact: Impact is expected to be transparent or minimal. Active Samba mounts could be affected but only briefly and should recover on their own.
• Globus update
  • Audience: All users of Globus
  • Impact: Globus may be unavailable for short periods.
• Domain Controller Updates
  • Audience: All users
  • Impact: Minimal impact is expected.

Updates on our status page: https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu

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/