Notification: Cluster Systems Maintenance 7/6-10/2015

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Notification: Cluster Systems Maintenance 7/6-10/2015

Attention Advanced Computing Users: Systems maintenance and upgrades downtime is scheduled for the week of July 6-10, 2015, and will affect the cluster systems as follows . . .

_Pegasus_ cluster will be unavailable July 6, ~8am (Monday) until July 10 ~5pm (Friday).
All logins will be disabled, current sessions and submitted jobs to Pegasus will be terminated.
Storage space will be inaccessible for Pegasus system users during the maintenance.

_Visx_ and _apollo_ systems will be unavailable July 6, ~8am (Monday) – July 7 ~10pm (Tuesday). Login to these systems will become available on Wednesday, but the job submission to apollo and visx queues will be delayed until Pegasus cluster maintenance is completed.

Tentative upgrade plan:

  • Pegasus operating system upgrade to Centos 6.6
  • LSF cluster version upgrade
  • Network router firmware upgrades and maintenance
  • Storage firmware upgrades and hardware maintenance

 

-HPC Administration
hpc@ccs.miami.edu