March 2020: Monthly Maintenance Downtime (3/17)

Date of downtime: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 (moved to accommodate spring break)


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:  

  • Operating system updates on front end servers, OnDemand, and cluster nodes
  • Reboots of all cluster nodes and front end servers
  • Infrastructure server operating system updates including FreeIPA and DNS

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