May 2022: CENTERWIDE Monthly Maintenance Downtime (5/31/22)

Date of downtime: Tuesday, May 31, 2022


Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm


NOTE:  This is a CENTERWIDE downtime due to the core network switch updates planned


Resources affected by downtime:

UB-HPC cluster (all partitions) 

Industry cluster (all partitions)

Faculty cluster (all partitions)

Portals: WebMO, OnDemand, ColdFront

LakeEffect Research Cloud - intermittent network outages are expected while network switch is updated

Also see cloud maintenance outage info for 6/1/22


What will be done:  

  • Operating system update of core network switch
  • Reboot of all cluster nodes
  • Updates of front-end login nodes (vortex1/2, transfer) and OnDemand