Since /migrate area is going to be decommissioned, it was remounted on Hexagon in read-only mode to hinder new data being written on.
Hexagon: power blink
Lightning caused again crashing of the high speed network on Hexagon and several nodes.
Hexagon is up again starting from 11:15.
Hexagon: HSN problems, rebooted
The high speed network stopped working today due to power spikes around 14:30.
The machine had to be rebooted and is up again since 16:40.
Hexagon: software updates
We have updated and made default the following modules:
- craype 2.5.5 -> 2.5.9
- cray-mpich 7.2.5 -> 7.5.3
The PGI 17.4 Community Edition has been installed as non-default. Please find more information about Community Edition at http://www.pgroup.com/products/community.htm.
- pgi/17.4.CE
Hexagon: emergency reboot
We will reboot Hexagon at 11:40 to apply important security updates.
Please accept our apologies for short notice.
Update 12:50 - Access to the machine is re-opened.
Hexagon: emergency reboot
Hexagon had to be rebooted to apply important security updates.
The machine is up and login enabled from 10:30.
Please accept our apologies for short notice.
Hexagon: HPN-SSH not supported
HPN-SSH has been obsoleted by standard OpenSSH releases.
Due to unstable release cycle and security concerns related to that, we have discontinued the use of HPN-SSH on Hexagon.
Hexagon: software updates
The following new software have been INSTALLED:
- Intel Compilers 2017 Update 4 (module: intel/17.4.056 (non-default))
The following unused software have been REMOVED:
- PGI
- 13.9.0
- 14.2.0
- 14.3.0
- Intel Compilers 12.1.5.339
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Chapel
- 1.6.0
- 1.7.0.2
- 1.8.0
- 1.9.0
- 1.10.0
- Cray-Libsci
- 12.0.02
- 12.2.0
- 13.3.0
- GCC
- 4.6.1
- 4.8.1
- 4.8.2
- 5.2.0
- Cray-Trilinos
- 11.12.1.2
- 11.12.1.5
It could be that something stopped working for you because of extra dependencies on the software removed. If that is the case please let us know via regular support, we would be happy to help you.
Hexagon: scheduled maintenance on May 22nd
We will have a planned maintenance on Hexagon, starting on May 22nd at 09:00 AM. The maintenance is expected to last one day.
During the maintenance we will carry out software and firmware upgrades as well service the hardware.
The job submission system has reservation in place, thus jobs which are not able to finish before maintenance start, will not be started.
/work-common will be unavailable during the maintenance period and will be unmounted from Grunch and Fimm.
UPDATES:
- 2017-05-22 09:00: Maintenance has started.
- 2017-05-22 14:16: /work-common is available again and remounted on Grunch.
- 2017-05-22 15:59: Maintenance has finished and access to Hexagon is re-opened.
/migrate and /bcmhsm unavailable on April 6th
There is a new three hours scheduled maintenance for the storage serving /migrate and /bcmhsm.
This will take place on 6th of April starting from 13:00 o'clock.