System Downtime

Date: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 6:00am to 6:30pm
Location: 

Ohio Supercomputer Center

6/7/16 5PM Update: Downtime is now estimated to complete around 6:30PM, not 5PM.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center has scheduled a downtime for all HPC systems starting Tuesday, June 7th, 2016, beginning at 6 a.m and scheduled to finish by 5 p.m. The downtime will affect the Oakley and Ruby clusters, web portals, and HPC file servers. Login services and access to storage will not be available during this time.
 
In order to quiesce the system for an orderly shutdown the batch scheduler will begin holding jobs that cannot complete before 6 a.m. June 7th.  Jobs that are not started will be held until after the downtime and then started once the system is returned to production status.
 
Highlights of the downtime activities:
 

  • Migration of data to new Home Directory file servers
  • Installation of new hardware in preparation for Owens cluster

 
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