System Downtime May 13 2025

Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 7:00am to 9:00pm
Location: 

Ohio Supercomputer Center

A downtime for OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, May 13 2025. The downtime will affect the Pitzer, Cardinal and Ascend Clusters, web portals, the state-wide licenses and HPC file servers. MyOSC (the client portal) will be available during the downtime.

In preparation for the downtime, the batch scheduler will not start jobs that cannot be completed before 7 a.m., May 13. Jobs that are not started on clusters will be held until after the downtime and then started once the system is returned to production status. 

Highlights of the downtime activities include:

  • Migration to new ethernet core switches
  • Changes to infiniband fabric configuration
  • OS and firmware updates on critical infrastructure

As always, you can contact us at OSC Help.