4. News & Events

  • General information about the Maintenance is applicable to all scheduled downtime periods.

  • Any additional information is outlined in notification emails to hpc-users@uci.edu (all current users) and is described in the details below.

  • When the maintenance is completed all users are notified via emails to hpc-users@uci.edu.

HPC3 and CRSP during Winter Administrative Recess
The RCIC staff will be on Winter Administrative Recess December 24, 2024, to January 2, 2025

HPC3 and CRSP remain operational during the Winter Break

However, during this time we will respond only to critical situations. Any questions regarding routine issues and services will be dealt with when we return to work after January 2nd, 2025.

RCIC staff volunteer their time during the campus shutdown.

Examples of critical and routine issues are listed below:

Critical situations (not a comprehensive list):

  • physical damage to the nodes

  • emergency power restoration to the servers

  • security break-in

  • down file servers

Routine issues (not a comprehensive list):

  • HPC3/CRSP account management

  • access to PI’s lab resources (Slurm/CRSP)

  • any Slurm job issues such as pending, etc.

  • any over quota questions

  • any software questions or requests

Please refrain from sending tickets about non-critical issues during the recess.
We appreciate your cooperation and wish you a Happy Holiday Season!
HPC3 Downtime December 18, 2024
The next outage will be before Christmas break, December 18, 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 table 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.

  5. After the maintenance you may need to reinstall software that you compiled or installed yourself.

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 changes

Scheduled to be removed

Use instead

afni/20.3.01

afni/22.1.09

amber/19.11/gcc.8.4.0

newer versions

ants/2.2.0

ants/2.3.5

aria2/1.36.0

biom-format/2.1.12

bionetgen/2.5.1

bionetgen/2.8.0

bowtie2/1.2.3

newer versions

bowtie2-python2/2.4.1

newer versions

bowtie2/2.4.4

bowtie2/2.5.1

boost/1.50.0/gcc_8.4.0

newer versions

boost/1.71.0/gcc_8.4.0

newer versions

cellranger/3.1.0

newer versions

charm/6.10.1/gcc.8.4.0-openmpi.4.0.3

newer versions

cmseq/1.0.4

dendropy/4.5.2

fastp/0.20.0

newer versions

ffmpeg/0.10.16

newer versions

ffmpeg/1.2.12

newer versions

fftw/3.3.8/gcc.8.4.0-openmpi.4.0.3

newer versions

foundation/v7

foundaiton/v8 [1]

freesurfer/7.1.1

newer version

freesurfer/7.3.2

newer version

gromacs/2020.4/gcc.8.4.0

newer version

hclust2/1.0.0

hdf5/1.10.5/gcc.system-openmpi.4.1.1

newer version

hdf5/1.10.5/intel.2020u1-openmpi.4.0.3 | newer version

humann/3.0.1

icu/70.1

igv/2.12.3

jags/4.3.0

julia/1.7.1

newer version

likwid/5.0.1

likwid/5.2.1

lz4/1.9.3

available without module

metaphlan/3.0.14

miniconda3/4.8.5 [2]

miniconda3/23.5.2

miniconda3/4.12.0 [2]

miniconda3/23.5.2

mrtrix3/3.0.2

mrtrix3/3.0.3

nco/4.9.6/gcc.8.4.0

newer version

parallel/20211222

available without module

phylophlan/3.0.2

pytorch/1.5.1

newer versions

tophat/2.1.1

qiime2/2020.8

newer versions

qiime2/2021.2

newer versions

qiime2/2022.2

newer versions

roary/3.13.0

udunits/2.2.26/intel.2020u1

newer versions

xz/5.2.5

available without module