November 2024: Monthly Maintenance Downtime (11/26/24)

Date of downtime: Tuesday, November 26, 2024


Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm


Resources affected by downtime:

UB-HPC cluster (all partitions) 

Faculty cluster (all partitions)

Portals: OnDemand, ColdFront (temporarily), IDM (temporarily) 


What will be done:  

  • Operating system upgrades on all cluster nodes -  this includes an update to NVIDIA drivers and Apptainer
  • Reboot of all cluster nodes
  • Updates of front-end login nodes (login1/2, vortex-future)
  • Update OnDemand to version 3.1.10


Specific Effects to CCR users:

We do not anticipate any of these updates will result in system problems.  However, with operating system updates on the compute nodes, it's possible these might have an effect on users' workflows.  Please report any suspected problems to CCR Help with details so that we may attempt to replicate them.