August 2024: Monthly Maintenance Downtime (8/27/24)

Date of downtime: Tuesday, August 27, 2024


Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm


Resources affected by downtime:

UB-HPC cluster (all partitions) 

Faculty cluster (all partitions)

Portals: OnDemand, ColdFront, IDM


What will be done:  

  • Reprovisioning and reboot of all cluster nodes
  • Updates of front-end login nodes (login1/2, vortex-future) and OnDemand
  • Infrastructure services updated


Changes to be aware of:
For those using MPI we recommend reading through these updated docs on how best to request high speed networks.