Ascend

Slurm database repair on 01/25/2024

We have scheduled a Slurm database repair, which is planned to start at 8:30 am US/Eastern on Thursday, January 25, 2024. During the repair, Slurm database will be offline; running jobs and OnDemand jobs will not be affected; any jobs using the '--clusters/-M' flag will receive errors; commands including sacct will be unavailable. The anticipated duration of the outage is expected to be up to 2 hours.

Nextflow

Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, portable, and reproducible workflows. Nextflow is based on the dataflow programming model which simplifies complex distributed pipelines.

System Downtime December 19 2023

A downtime for OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, December 19, 2023. The downtime will affect the Pitzer, Owens and Ascend Clusters, web portals, HPC file servers, and state-wide licenses. 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., December 19. 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.

Nodejs

Nodejs is used to create server-side web applications, and it is perfect for data-intensive applications since it uses an asynchronous, event-driven model

Rolling reboot of all clusters starting from Oct 25 2023

We will have rolling reboots of Ascend, Owens and Pitzer clusters including login and compute nodes, starting from 9AM Wednesday October 25, to perform NVIDIA driver and Slurm upgrades. At the start of the rolling reboot all login nodes will be unavailable for about 10 minutes. The rolling reboots won't affect any running batch jobs, but users may experience longer queue wait time than usual on the clusters.

System Downtime August 8 2023

A downtime for OSC HPC systems is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, August 8, 2023. The downtime will affect the Pitzer, Owens and Ascend Clusters, web portals, and HPC file servers. MyOSC and state-wide licenses will be available during the downtime. See this link for more details: https://www.osc.edu/calendar/events/2023_08_08-system_downtime_august_8_2023

Rolling reboot of all clusters starting from June 14 2023

Beginning 9am on Wednesday, June 14, we will be having rolling reboots of all clusters (Owens, Pitzer, and Ascend). This includes both login and compute nodes and will be done to perform OS updates. Login nodes will be rebooted at 9am on June 14, which will leave them unavailable for approximately 5-10 minutes. The rolling reboots won't affect any running batch jobs, but users may experience longer than usual wait times on all clusters.

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