Author: Einar Jensen

Fram downtime 23rd – 24th February

[Update, 2022-02-24 22:30]: The maintenance is over and Fram is in production again. Thank you for your patience!

[Update, 2022-02-24 20:30]: The maintenance is taking a little longer than planned. We plan to get back into production at 22:00.

[Update, 2022-02-23 12:00]: The maintenance stop has now begun.

Fram supercomputer will be unavailable due to maintenance on the cooling system from February 23rd 12:00 until 24th 20:00

If time allows it we will also upgrade whole or parts/components of the storage system, including file system clients (compute nodes)

Downtime Betzy, 6th December 08:00 until 9th December 20:00

There will be a scheduled downtime for Betzy lasting three days starting on Monday 6th December at 08:00. Downtime will last until Thursday 9th, 20:00.

During the downtime we will conduct:

  • Full upgrade of the Lustre filesystem (both servers and clients)
  • Full upgrade of the infiniband firmware
  • Full upgrade of the Mellanox infiniband drivers
  • minor updates to other parts of the system (Slurm, configs, etc)

Please be aware that this does also affect the storage services recently moved from NIRD to Betzy.

We apologize for the inconvenience

Update 08.12.2021 18:00 : Betzy downtime is over, and system is open for users. All planned update is performed .

[FINISHED] Short 1 hour downtime on Fram, 24th November 12:00

[Update, 2021-11-24 14:15] Now the NIRD mounts are working again.

[Update, 2021-11-24 13:30] We are back in production and jobs are running som normal again. We are missing the NIRD mounts on two of the login nodes, but are working on fixing that.

[Update, 2021-11-24 12:00] The maintenance has started now.

There will be a short 1 hour downtime for Fram on 24th November, starting at 12:00.

During downtime we will update the firmware on interconnect infiniband switches

[FINISHED] Saga downtime 17th November 12:00 -19th November 15:00

[Update: 2021-11-19 09:50] The maintenance work is now done, and Saga is back in full production and running jobs as normal.

[Update, 2021-11-18 12:40] login nodes are ready for users, users can access their data and work with it. Compute nodes are still under maintenance thus running jobs are still not possible.

[Update, 2021-11-17 12:00]: The maintenance has now started

We will conduct firmware update/maintenance on all of Saga during next week, starting on Wednesday 17th 12:00

Downtime will last until 15:00 on friday 19th, but we will bring back access to login nodes and file system as soon as the upgrade is done on vital parts of the system. Compute ndes will be brought back sequentially while they are updated.

Sigma2 router upgrade in Tromsø

Uninett will conduct a firmware upgrade of one of the routers in Tromsø this Friday, 5th November between 11:00 and 15:00. This will not affect internal networks on Fram, NIRD or NIRD Toolkit or any production on the systems, but external network may briefly disconnect or stall

If the upgrade is successful, the other router will be upgraded next week.