Center for Computational Research

Date of downtime: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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:  

• Reboot of all cluster nodes
• Updates of front-end login nodes (login1/2, vortex-future)
• Infrastructure Updates
• Release of additional software packages in ccrsoft/2024.04
• Default software release on vortex-future changing to ccrsoft/2024.04 - to pin your account to a specific software release, see the green box here
• Updated container documentation to be published today

Specific Effects to CCR users:
None expected

Please see this announcement for more information