HPCC users,

Please check out the latest HPC cluster news below.

Infiniband Upgrade

We are upgrading our high-speed infiniband backbone of our cluster! All new servers added to the cluster will be have up to 200Gb/s bandwidth.

Springbreak Maintenance

The cluster will undergo its regularly scheduled quarterly maintenance during Springbreak, March 27-31. The following activities will be performed:

Operating system updates

BIOS and firmware updates as needed

Nvidia/cuda driver updates

Infiniband infrastructure upgrade

Due to the infiniband upgrade, we anticipate an extended offline period, which will start Monday afternoon the 27th at 1pm, and run through Thursday afternoon the 30th. Jobs scheduled to run into this 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 accordingly.

For the latest cluster news and status updates, check out the link below:

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

Have a nice weekend!

Robert Yelle

HPC Manager