Monthly cluster maintenance will occur on Monday, April 6, 2020 7am-11am.

Please also note that our office hours (Wednesdays 12pm -3pm) have moved online.
Details: https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu/training/office-hours/

GENERAL MAINTENANCE

1. Login and VDI nodes will be rebooted
   • Audience: Cluster users
   • Impact: brief disruption to users currently logged in.
2. Upgrade singularity to latest 3.5.3 version
   • Audience: Cluster users
   • Impact: ability to run containers may briefly be unavailable
3. Scratch cleanup ( https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/kb/policy-scratch/ )
   • Audience: Cluster users
   • Impact: Files older than 90 days will be removed. 

NETWORK MAINTENANCE

1. Expansion of @odyssey/@fasrc VPN realm to allow for 1023 more users.
   • Audience: All users
   • Impact: no visible impact expected
2. Move of CEPR VPN realm
   • Audience: CEPR users
   • Impact: VPN connections will be unavailable for a short period
   • Details of impact will be shared with CEPR in a separate communication very soon
3. Rebooting lic3, lic4, and epslic1 license servers
   • Audience: Windows licensed software users
   • Impact: Windows software licenses will be unavailable for a very short time

Thanks,
FAS Research Computing
https://www.rc.fas.harvard.edu
https://docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu
https://status.rc.fas.harvard.edu

Event Types: maintenance