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On November 25, 2024, our team sent the following message to the HPC mailing list.Hi All, This message provides notice that the Sol cluster (and Hawk expansion) :
To all HPC Users:
The Sol cluster, including the Hawk expansion, will have a scheduled downtime on January 6-8, 2025. During the downtime, our team will upgrade the scheduler (SLURM), the operating system (OS), and make a large set of new software available.
All users should expect to modify or update their workflows in order to continue computing after the OS upgrade is complete (after January 31), since these upgrades will almost certainly disrupt your existing compiled codes, our plentiful but aging sofware modules, and your virtual environments. To explain all of the important details and actions you should take, we have provided published a guide on in our knowledge base. All users should review this guide before the downtime.
We encourage users to get in touch with us, by opening a help ticket, in order to (1) request software modules they you will need after the upgrade, (2) share instructions with us for testing existing codes on the new software, and (3) answer any questions about the upgrade. We will repeat this announcement in the coming weeks to remind you. We ask you to provide all requests for software or advance testing before December 20, 2024 . Requests submiteed after that will be addressed as time allows. to ensure we can respond to these requests before the downtime.
We expect this change to improve the security of our system while also giving us an opportunity to streamline the our software and partition system SLURM partitions in order to make it more usable to our research community. Thank you in advance for helping us prepare for a seamless transition for Sol. –Ryan