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