This is a friendly reminder that the Discovery cluster will be undergoing regularly scheduled monthly maintenance between 5 AM - 5 PM tomorrow, 12/1/2021. The cluster will be unavailable for jobs during the maintenance window. Please subscribe to our ITS status page for updates.

Also note that if you’re attempting to submit a job today that might run into the start of the maintenance window, your job will fail or return an error. Please make sure to update your srun or sbatch script with the --time= option set to an amount of time where your job will complete before the start of maintenance.

Hello Discovery users,

What this is about:

Discovery cluster monthly maintenance

When:

December 1st, 5am to 5pm EST

What updates are planned during maintenance:

Update slurm to address some bugs in current release.

Update the kernel drivers to enable cuda versions up to and including 11.4.3

How will the maintenance day affect me:

The cluster will be unavailable for jobs during this time

Discovery resources including OOD, data storage (/home, /scratch, /work), and PI-owned partitions will be unavailable during this time

How to get updates about the maintenance window:

Please subscribe to our ITS status page for updates

Additional questions or concerns:

Please contact us at [log in to unmask], visit our website rc.northeastern.edu, or view our documentation at rc-docs.northeastern.edu

Thanks,

The Research Computing Team

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