Center for Computational Research

NOTE this date has been moved!

Date of downtime: Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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:  

• Slurm update 20.11.2 (Release Notes)
• Operating system updates (CentOS 7.9) and reboot of all cluster nodes
• Operating system updates on front-end login nodes (vortex1/2, presto, transfer) and OnDemand
• /util mount point being moved from old storage (Isilon) to new storage system (Vast) - please report any problems with software or modules to ccr-help
• 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