Cluster users,

The next cluster maintenance is scheduled for the week of December 16. The maintenance activities planned for this time include:

Head node upgrade

OnDemand HPC portal upgrade

Slurm upgrade and configuration changes

Operating system image updates

Nvidia GPU and infiniband driver updates 

BIOS and firmware updates as needed

Miscellaneous hardware maintenance as needed

The entire cluster will be offline starting Monday, December 16 at 1pm, and will remain offline until approximately Wednesday the 18th at 4pm.  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 offline 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. 

If you have any questions or concerns, let me know. For up-to-date status on the cluster, check out the link below:

https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/hpc/hpc-cluster-status-and-news

Rob Yelle

HPC Manager