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Hi HPC & Spear users,</div>
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<span><b>Today at 6pm, </b>the Research Computing Center will upgrade the HPC cluster job scheduler to the latest stable release. We anticipate the upgrade taking no more than two hours.</span>
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<div>During the upgrade, the cluster will keep running jobs that have started; i.e., entered the "running" state. However, job status and new job submission will be unavailable. Jobs that are waiting in-queue should resume once the job scheduler upgrade is
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<div style="text-align: left;" align="left">The job scheduler upgrade is being performed prior to the
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general maintenance (starting next Monday, August 16)</a> in order to minimize downtime and compute node outages.</div>
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<div>We advise you to monitor your running compute jobs for irregularities and contact us if you need to:
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support@rcc.fsu.edu</a>.</div>
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<div>We will post an announcement to this email list once the upgrade is complete.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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The RCC Team<br>
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