December 2019 - Monthly Maintenance Downtime (12/17)

Date of downtime: Tuesday, December 17, 2019


Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm


Resources affected by downtime:

UB-HPC cluster (general-compute, debug, viz, largemem, and gpu  partitions) 

Industry cluster (compute, scavenger partitions)

Faculty cluster (all partitions)

Portals: WebMO, OnDemand



What will be done:  

  • Reboots of all cluster nodes and front end servers
  • GPFS server OS updates and reboots
  • GPFS client update on all nodes & front ends
  • Increase max file size limit on skylake partition of ub-hpc cluster

Jobs will be held in the queue during the maintenance downtime and will run after the updates are complete.


If you have  any questions or concerns please e-mail ccr-help_at_buffalo.edu