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Hi HPC users,</div>
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We are planning an upgrade to the HPC software stack between Sunday, December 3 and Thursday, December 7, 2023. During this time, the High Performance Computing cluster will be offline and unavailable for use. As maintenance progresses, some services may come
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We are upgrading the operating system on the compute cluster from CentOS8.3 to <b>
AlmaLinux 8.6</b>, and the Slurm job scheduler from v20.11 to <b>v23.02</b>.</div>
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<p>The following services will be offline during the maintenance period:</p>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc;">High Performance Computing Cluster (HPC)</li><li class="ContentPasted3" style="list-style-type: disc;">Open OnDemand</li><li class="ContentPasted3" style="list-style-type: disc;">Spear Nodes</li></ul>
<div><span>HPC Parallel storage (GPFS) will continue to be available, but access through the HPC login nodes will be unavailable. Users will instead need to use the storage export node (<a href="https://docs.rcc.fsu.edu/storage/data-transfer" title="https://docs.rcc.fsu.edu/storage/data-transfer" id="LPlnk733881" class="OWAAutoLink">export.rcc.fsu.edu</a>).</span></div>
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<p class="ContentPasted4">The following services will be unaffected by the maintenance.</p>
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<li class="ContentPasted4">Archival Storage</li><li class="ContentPasted4">Virtual Machines</li><li class="ContentPasted4">Data Center Services / Academic Colocation</li></ul>
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More details are on our news article: <a href="https://its.fsu.edu/article/2023-rcc-software-upgrade-announcement" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" class="OWAAutoLink">
its.fsu.edu/article/2023-rcc-software-upgrade-announcement</a>.</div>
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Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance. You can email us at
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support@rcc.fsu.edu</a>.<br>
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Best regards,</div>
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The RCC Team<br>
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