4. News & Events

General information about the Maintenance is applicable to all scheduled downtime periods.
Any additional information is outlined in notification emails (sent to all users) and in the events below.
HPC3 Downtime December 18, 2024
The next outage will be before Christmas break, December, 2024, beginning at 8am
Maintenance Items:

  1. OS revision update from Rocky 8.8 to Rocky 8.10.

  2. Full rebuild of all software, see below for software changes.

  3. Top-to-bottom re-installation of all compute and login nodes.

Impacts:

This is a full outage

  1. All existing logins will be terminated.

  2. You will NOT have access to HPC3 or CRSP during the planned downtime.

  3. No jobs can run during the maintenance period.

  4. Slurm jobs that are not guaranteed (via TimeLimit) to complete before 8am on December 18 will be held. Please see requesting time limits on queues.

Software changes:
Some modules will be removed because they cannot be built on a new system or are unused.
Note, the table below will be periodically updated till the maintenance date.
Table 4.1 Software module changes

Scheduled to be removed

Use instead

pytorch/1.5.1

use newer version

miniconda3/4.8.5

miniconda3/23.5.2

miniconda3/4.12.0

miniconda3/23.5.2