Regular monthly maintenance will take place Monday April 5th, 2021 7-11am

MAINTENANE COMPLETE - NEXT MAINTENANCE MAY 3rd

NOTICES

• Wellness Day April 2nd - FASRC closed for the day
  FASRC will, along with the Sciences Dean’s office and others, be observing a day of wellness for our staff on April 2nd. To allow staff to all take a vacation day without distraction, we will treat this like a holiday and close our virtual doors. We will, of course, monitor for emergencies and will address any new tickets the following Monday.

• Spring training sessions available: 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

• Infiniband firmware updates
  • Audience: Cluster users
  • Impact: Boston and Holyoke - TDB
• SLURM 20.11.5 update
  • Audience: Cluster users
  • Impact: Scheduler/jobs paused during upgrade
• Login node firmware updates & reboot, 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.

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.