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.

4.1. September 18, 2025

HPC3 Downtime September 18, 2025
2025-09-10 by Nadya Williams
The next outage will be September 18, 2025, beginning at 8am.
The cluster will be unavailable all day.
Maintenance Items:

  1. BeegFS version upgrade on all DFS servers and cluster-wide.

  2. Slurm version upgrade cluster-wide.

Impacts:

This is a full outage.

  1. All existing logins will be terminated.

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

  3. You will have access to CRSP using Web based File browser or CRSP Desktop App.

  4. No Slurm jobs can run or can be pending in the queue. All jobs remaining in the queue on the maintenance day will be terminated.

  5. Slurm jobs that are not guaranteed (via TimeLimit) to complete before 8am on the day of maintenance will need to be canceled and resubmitted after the maintenance. Please see requesting time limits on queues.