HPCC users,
Here is the latest news on the CoE HPC cluster:
Fall maintenance week:
The HPC Cluster will undergo its regularly scheduled quarterly maintenance September 12-16. The following maintenance activities will be performed:
Operating system updates
BIOS and firmware updates as needed
Slurm scheduler upgrade
Nvidia driver and CUDA updates
Miscellaneous hardware maintenance as needed
The entire cluster will be offline starting Tuesday the 13th at 8am, and will remain offline until approximately Wednesday the 14th at 3pm. Jobs scheduled to run into that offline period will remain pending with the message “ReqNodeNotAvail, Reserved for maintenance”. If you wish for your Slurm job to start and finish before the maintenance period begins, you will need to adjust your time limit accordingly, e.g. to change to 2 days do:
scontrol update job {jobid} TimeLimit=2-00:00:00
Alternatively, you can cancel your pending job, adjust your walltime (using the --time option) and resubmit.
I will send out a reminder next week, and another announcement when the cluster is back online.
For cluster news and status updates, check out the link below:
https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/hpc/hpc-cluster-status-and-news<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.engine…>
Cheers,
Rob Yelle
HPC Manager
