April 2020: CENTERWIDE Monthly Maintenance Downtime (4/28)

4pm Update:  Downtime is complete.  Please report any problems to CCR help.


2pm Update:  Storage updates were successful.  We anticipate completing the maintenance downtime by 5pm.



Date of downtime: Tuesday, April 28, 2020


Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm


NOTE THIS HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A CENTERWIDE DOWNTIME


Resources affected by downtime:


Everything that uses the Isilon storage system (home & project directories) and GPFS storage (/gpfs/scratch), including but not limited to:

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

Industry cluster (compute, scavenger partitions)

Faculty cluster (all partitions)

Portals: WebMO, OnDemand

Research lab servers - if you're unsure if that's you, please contact CCR help



What will be done:  

  • Reboot of OnDemand server
  • Reboots of all cluster nodes and front end servers
  • Isilon update
  • GPFS update

Jobs will be held in the queues on the academic and industry clusters 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