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- | ===== August 28, 2022: power issues in Nairobi | + | ===== May 2, 2023: planned maintenance |
+ | ILRI ICT is planning some major maintenance on our Nairobi infrastructure during the upcoming weekend. | ||
- | Unfortunately we had major power issues | + | Due to the invasive nature of the maintenance, |
- | and the entire | + | |
- | cy maintenance | + | We will notify you when the maintenance is finished, after which time you can re-submit your jobs. |
- | this in the future. | + | |
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+ | ===== March 23, 2023: planned maintenance/ | ||
+ | I am planning to upgrade the HPC's backend storage systems to a new version of their operating system (CentOS)¹ on Monday, March 27rd at 9AM (EAT). Due to the invasive nature of these upgrades I will need to stop existing SLURM jobs and restrict access to the clsuter. The work will probably take the entire | ||
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+ | ¹ Technically speaking, we are upgrading from CentOS 7 to CentOS Stream 8, which is the same upgrade I've performed on several | ||
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+ | ===== November 15, 2022: planned | ||
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+ | We are planning to upgrade | ||
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+ | Any SLURM jobs that are still running will be re-queued and held until after the maintenance is over. The cluster will be inaccessible during this time. | ||
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+ | Please bear with us for this important update to our infrastructure. | ||
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+ | Thank you! | ||
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+ | ===== August 28, 2022: power issues in Nairobi ===== | ||
- | If you had any jobs running they may have crashed or been resubmitted. Please | + | Unfortunately we had major power issues at the ILRI, Nairobi campus this weekend and the entire cluster was powered off several times. ILRI ICT is doing emergency maintenance on the UPS power backup system |
- | check carefully | + | |
- | questions. | + | |
- | Apologies | + | If you had any jobs running they may have crashed or been resubmitted. Please check carefully to see the state of your jobs and let me know if you have any questions. |
- | 2022-08-30: Power went off again at 3:30PM. | + | * **2022-08-29**: Power went off again at 8:00AM. |
- | 2022-08-29: Power went off again at 8:00AM. | + | * **2022-08-30**: Power went off again at 3:30PM. |
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