Bamboo scheduled maintenance: 03-05 December 2024

Dear users,

as just announced on the baobab-announce@ mailing list, we will perform software and hardware maintenance on the Bamboo HPC cluster from December 3 to 5, 2024, starting at 08:00 +0100.

You’ll receive an email when it ends. The cluster will be completely unavailable during this time, with no access at all (not even to retrieve files).

If you submit a job, ensure the expected wall time (duration) doesn’t overlap with the maintenance start, or it will be scheduled afterward. What will be done during this maintenance:

  1. Re-install all compute nodes with a new OS major version, Rocky 9. The compute nodes are in Rocky 8 currently.

  2. Upgrade Slurm to version 24.05.4

  3. Update all servers to the latest security and bugfix releases.

  4. Install new hard disks in home and scratch storage as spare

Thank you for your understanding. Best regards, The HPC Team