Dear users,
as just announced on the baobab-announce@ mailing list, we will do a software and hardware maintenance of the Baobab HPC cluster on 31th of January and 01st of February 2023.
The maintenance will start at 08:00 +0100 and you will receive an email when the maintenance will be over.
The cluster will be totally unavailable during this period, with no access at all (not even to retrieve files).
If you submit a job in the meantime, be sure that the expected wall time (duration) does not overlap with the start of the maintenance or your job will be scheduled after the maintenance.
What should be done during this maintenance:
- add new metadata target on scratch storage to improve performance
- replace faulty battery on storage server
- update Slurm to version 22.05.7
- re install all the nodes with latest CentOS security and bug fixes
- upgrade all the servers to latest CentOS security and bug fixes
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards,
the HPC team