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Monthly maintenance Jan. 9th 2023 7am-11am

Regular monthly maintenance will take place Monday Jan. 9th, 2023 7-11am

NOTICES

  • GPU 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. 
  • GLOBUS PERSONAL CLIENT 3.1 and below deprecated
    If you are using the Globus Connect Personal client on your machine, please ensure you have updated and are running version 3.2. Previous versions will not work as of December 17th, 2022. 
    https://docs.globus.org/ca-update-2022/#globus_connect_personal
  • HOLIDAY NOTICES - WINTER BREAK:
    Office Hours will not be held on Dec. 21st and will resume Jan. 4th, 2023.
    Winter break runs Dec. 23 - Jan. 2nd. FASRC will monitor for emergencies during this time, but general questions/tickets will be held until we return on Jan. 3rd, 2023. 

GENERAL MAINTENANCE 

  • Slurm upgrade
    • Audience: Cluster users
    • Impact: Jobs will be paused during upgrade
  • OnDemand Version upgrade to 2.0.29
    • Audience: VDI/OpenOnDemand users
    • Impact: VDI will be unavailable during this and the above Slurm upgrade
  • Domain controller updates
    • Audience: All cluster
    • Impact: Could briefly impact some older systems, otherwise no impact expected
  • Login node and VDI node reboots and firmware updates
    • 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.

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/

 

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Date

Jan 09 2023
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Time

7:00 am - 11:00 am
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