November 2020: Maintenance Downtime (11/24)

Date of downtime: Tuesday, November 24, 2020


Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm


Resources affected by downtime:

UB-HPC cluster (all partitions) 

Industry cluster (all partitions )

Faculty cluster (all partitions)

Portals: WebMO, OnDemand


What will be done:  

  • Panasas hardware and client software update
  • Slurm minor release update
  • Reboot of all cluster nodes
  • Operating system updates on front-end login nodes (vortex1/2, presto, transfer) and OnDemand
  • OnDemand minor release update
  • See this page for modules being deprecated


Jobs will be held in 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