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

NOTICES

• User Survey - If you haven’t yet, we’d love to have your feedback on our User Survey which closes June 2nd: Start Here
• The annual MGHPCC/Holyoke power shutdown is scheduled to take place August 9-12. Full details and tasks will be added closer to the date, but you can see preliminary details and the timeline at:
  https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/events/mghpcc-power-shutdown-2021/

• New Storage Service Center launches into production FY22 (July 1st 2021).  See Billing FAQ https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/policy/billing-faq/ and list of storage tiers https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/services/data-storage/. Individual PIs will be contacted about setting up their billing.

• Spring training sessions available: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/upcoming-training/ 

GENERAL MAINTENANCE

 - ADDITIONAL ITEMS MAY BE ADDED CLOSER TO DATE -

• Slurm scheduler update to version 20.11.7
  • Audience: All cluster users
  • Impact: Jobs will be paused during upgrade
• VPN Updates
  • Audience: All VPN users
  • Impact: Connections will drop during updates
• FASRC ticket system (rchelp) updates 
  • Audience: Anyone submitting a ticket between 10am-11am
  • Impact: The ticket system will be unavailable for short periods between 10am-11am
• Login node fand 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.