Hexagon will have a scheduled maintenance on Thursday May. 6th from 12:00.
This is to fix problem with cabinet 7.
The queue have a reservation in place such that only jobs that can complete (according to asked for walltime) before the maintenance will start.
This note will be updated when we have more information.
Update: Maintenance has been moved to Monday May 10th, from 12:00
Update: 10.05, 18:20 Maintenance finished, machine is back online.
Scheduled maintenance
Hexagon: login6 is going to be rebooted
Hexagon login6 node has been evicted from ost8 Lustre /work filesystem. Files located on ost8 on /work filesystem are not available from login6.
Please logoff from login6 and use other hexagon login nodes. Login6 is going to be rebooted as soon as all jobs started from it will be finished.
17/04 22:00 login6 has been rebooted and is available.
Please logoff from login6 and use other hexagon login nodes. Login6 is going to be rebooted as soon as all jobs started from it will be finished.
17/04 22:00 login6 has been rebooted and is available.
Hexagon: scheduled maintenance, Mon. Feb. 8th
Hexagon will have a scheduled maintenance on Monday Feb. 8th from 13:00 to approx. Tuesday late evening Feb. 9th.
The following operations will be performed during maintenance slot:
* Base software upgrade from CLE2.1 to CLE2.2
* Optimization of /work filesystem metadata
* Hardware maintenance
The queue have a reservation in place such that only jobs that can complete (according to asked for walltime) before the maintenance will start.
This note will be updated when we have more information.
NB! Users are encouraged to recompile all binaries after performed maintenance. This is due to a new CLE release.
Update: We will try to start maintenance at 12:30 instead of 13:00 since only few jobs are running.
Update: 09/02/2010 21:25 Maintenance finished. Hexagon is online.
Please remember to recompile all your programs!
Before contacting support please be sure that you have recompiled your code, this will speed up your case processing.
The following operations will be performed during maintenance slot:
* Base software upgrade from CLE2.1 to CLE2.2
* Optimization of /work filesystem metadata
* Hardware maintenance
The queue have a reservation in place such that only jobs that can complete (according to asked for walltime) before the maintenance will start.
This note will be updated when we have more information.
NB! Users are encouraged to recompile all binaries after performed maintenance. This is due to a new CLE release.
Update: We will try to start maintenance at 12:30 instead of 13:00 since only few jobs are running.
Update: 09/02/2010 21:25 Maintenance finished. Hexagon is online.
Please remember to recompile all your programs!
Before contacting support please be sure that you have recompiled your code, this will speed up your case processing.
Scheduled maintenance for hexagon, Mon. Nov. 23rd
Hexagon will have a scheduled maintenance on Monday Nov. 23rd from 13:00 to approx. 19:00. Some software updates and hardware replacements will be made. The queue have a reservation in place such that only jobs that can complete (according to asked for walltime) before the maintenance will start.
This note will be updated when we have more information.
Update: 19:08 Maintenance finished, system is up and open for users.
This note will be updated when we have more information.
Update: 19:08 Maintenance finished, system is up and open for users.
Scheduled maintenance for hexagon, Thu Sep. 10th
Due to a needed security update that requires a reboot we will be forced to do the next maintenance of hexagon earlier than planned. We will therefore have a scheduled maintenance starting on Thursday Sep. 10th at 13:00.
Job-scheduler reservation is now in place so that only jobs that can finish (according to requested walltime) before the scheduled maintenance will be allowed to start.
During the maintenance we will install a security update as well as replacing a few faulty hardware components.
We will update this note when we have more information about expected length or ongoing progress for the maintenance.
As usual, send any questions to support-uib@notur.no.
Update 16:30: Machine is now up again and ready for use.
Job-scheduler reservation is now in place so that only jobs that can finish (according to requested walltime) before the scheduled maintenance will be allowed to start.
During the maintenance we will install a security update as well as replacing a few faulty hardware components.
We will update this note when we have more information about expected length or ongoing progress for the maintenance.
As usual, send any questions to support-uib@notur.no.
Update 16:30: Machine is now up again and ready for use.
Replacing controller on hexagon Jan. 12th
Monday Jan. 12th at 13:30 will we replace the failed controller on Hexagon. During this maintenance the entire machine will be unavailable. Note that jobs with a walltime lasting longer than 13:30 the 12th will be prevented from starting until the maintenance is completed.
Update 15:30, machine is running again.
Update 15:30, machine is running again.
Scheduled maintenance for fimm cluster December 15th
We will have a scheduled maintenance for fimm cluster on Monday December 15th at 09:00. Estimated downtime is 8 hours. Task is to extend /work and /work2 directories.
Update 15th, 08:15: The login node has been blocked for new connections. It will be made available again as soon as the upgrade has been completed.
Update 16th, 00:10: Fimm is now, after some delay, updated and available for all users. /work and /work2 has been upgraded with more capacity. The queuing system and the scheduler has be upgraded to a newer version. The global file system has also be upgraded together with the latest kernel.
We have also removed the intel compiler from PATH, and replaced it with the pgi compiler. You can however still use the intel compiler, after executing "module swap pgi intel". If you experience any trouble please inform us at support-uib@notur.no.
Update 15th, 08:15: The login node has been blocked for new connections. It will be made available again as soon as the upgrade has been completed.
Update 16th, 00:10: Fimm is now, after some delay, updated and available for all users. /work and /work2 has been upgraded with more capacity. The queuing system and the scheduler has be upgraded to a newer version. The global file system has also be upgraded together with the latest kernel.
We have also removed the intel compiler from PATH, and replaced it with the pgi compiler. You can however still use the intel compiler, after executing "module swap pgi intel". If you experience any trouble please inform us at support-uib@notur.no.
Scheduled maintenance for hexagon on Dec. 4th
There will be a short scheduled maintenance for hexagon on Thursday December 4th at 13:30. Expected downtime is around 30 minutes. As usual, a reservation will be put in place in the queue-system to avoid having jobs running at the time of maintenance.
Update December 3rd: This maintenance has been canceled since the unexpected downtime over the weekend.
Update December 3rd: This maintenance has been canceled since the unexpected downtime over the weekend.
Maintenance on /migrate and /bcmhsm Nov. 24th
We will install a 10Gb card on the server providing /migrate and /bcmhsm today at 14:45. The downtime should be minimal.
Update 15:30: The server is now up again. The server connected to the tape robot is not, so /migrate, /bcmhsm files which are on tape will not be available until this has been solved.
Update 16:00: Tape robot is now available. All systems should now be available.
Update 15:30: The server is now up again. The server connected to the tape robot is not, so /migrate, /bcmhsm files which are on tape will not be available until this has been solved.
Update 16:00: Tape robot is now available. All systems should now be available.
Scheduled maintenance for hexagon on Nov. 17th
We will have a short scheduled maintenance for hexagon on Monday November 17th at 13:30. Estimated downtime is 1 hour. Task is to apply a patch for a memory bug.
Update Monday 17th 12:15, due to empty queue system and an issue with the batch system scheduler we did the restart early, we are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Update 12:30, machine is now running again.
Update Monday 17th 12:15, due to empty queue system and an issue with the batch system scheduler we did the restart early, we are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Update 12:30, machine is now running again.