[biomade-users] BioMade HPC Core planned downtime Wed 2/2 and Thurs -2/3

[Robert E. Anderson]

Providing a final notice for the upcoming BioMade HPC Core downtime 
starting before 8am this Wednesday 2/2.
The cluster will be offline until sometime on Thursday 2/3.
On Wednesday morning will be be terminating any running jobs, and data 
stored on BioMade will not be available until late Thursday. Please plan 
accordingly.
Robert E. Anderson
Associate Director
Univ of NH Research Computing Center
Robert E. Anderson wrote:
RCC plans to take the BioMade HPC Core offline early on Wednesday 2/2/22 
and bring it back online by late afternoon Thursday 2/3/22. Please plan 
your jobs so they complete before 6am on 2/2. Any running jobs will be 
terminated on the morning of 2/2.
Normal BIOS and OS updates will be done for the BioMade HPC Core hardware. 
Additionally the clusters CPU Only Nodes will each receive an A100 GPU, 
purchased by the BioMade grant in 2021Q4. This hardware addition will make 
all of the BioMade HPC Core compute nodes GPU nodes.
The GPU card installs and upgrades will take all day Wednesday. But we may 
be able to bring the BioMade HPC Core back online before the end of day 
Thursday.
Email will be sent when we the BioMade HPC Core is back in service, and two 
more email reminders are planned.
Expect reminder email on: Wednesday 1/26 & Monday 1/31
Back online email sometime on: 2/3
Robert E. Anderson
Associate Director
Univ of NH Research Computing Center
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