Regular monthly maintenance will take place Monday February 1st, 2021 7-11am

NOTICES

• New training sessions starting in April: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/ 
• Please note that our office hours (Wednesdays 12pm -3pm) have permanently moved online.
  Details: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/training/office-hours/

GENERAL MAINTENANCE

• 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.
• Upgrade Slurm to 20.11.3
  • Audience: All cluster users
  • Impact: Minor update. The scheduler will be paused during upgrade
• 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.