Bamboo scheduled maintenance: 15-18 September 2026

HPC Announce
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Dear users,

We will be performing software and hardware maintenance on the Bamboo HPC cluster from 15 to 18 September 2026, starting at 08:00 +0100.

You’ll receive an email when the maintenance is finished. The cluster will be completely unavailable during this time, with no access whatsoever (not even to retrieve files).

We remember you that our two other HPC clusters are available during the maintenance!

When submitting a job, make sure that the expected wall time (duration) doesn’t overlap with the start of the maintenance, or it will be scheduled after.

What will be done during this maintenance

  1. All compute nodes will be reinstalled with latest Rocky 9

  2. Upgrade Slurm to version 26.05.03

  3. Upgrade BeeGFS to 8.4.1

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

During the maintenance period we are very busy and provide limited user support.

Thank you for your understanding.

Best regards, The Baobab HPC Team

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Dear users,

The maintenance work has now finished and the cluster is up and running again.

Please let us know if you notice anything unusual.

Happy calculating!

The Baobab HPC team