[Lilab] Fwd: [UCR HPCC] Mar 10 Cluster Shutdown for Move to School of Medicine

[Wei Vivian Li]

FYI. Please note down these days and plan accordingly to avoid delays in
your projects.




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Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Subject: [UCR HPCC] Mar 10 Cluster Shutdown for Move to School of Medicine
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[UCR HPCC] Mar 10 Cluster Shutdown for Move to School of Medicine
[image: UCR High Performance Computing Center]
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Move into SOM-ED1 Data Center

When

Monday, Mar 10 to Friday, Mar 14, 2025

Description

The HPCC's long-awaited move to a *much larger and newly renovated server
room* in the SOM-ED1 building is finally happening! This major improvement
will unfortunately require about 5 days of downtime to move all HPCC
systems to the new server room, and redeploy and test them. We apologize
for the disruption this will cause to your research. This is a rare and
unique event (once every 20+ years) that requires extensive organization
and coordination between multiple parties and is a major logistical
undertaking.

Benefits

The relocation of the HPCC will result in considerably more rack space,
electrical and cooling capacity, and more dependable system operation,
allowing us to accommodate substantially more CPU/GPU computing resources
and data storage now and in the future. These enhancements will translate
to significant benefits for all users.

Schedule: 8AM March 10th to afternoon of March 14th

Starting at 8AM on March 10th, users' access will be stopped, and we will
begin shutting down all running jobs and services (see below). Any
computing jobs that will still be running during the shutdown will need to
be terminated by us. Users can restart or re-submit them after the move.
Most compute services will be available again by the evening of March 14th.

Services Impacted

*All* services hosted by HPCC will be down during this period. This
includes, but is not limited to:

   - Cluster access (SSH, Slurm, data access), including HTTP access to
   user data.
   - All services provided by OnDemand: RStudio/Posit, MATLAB, Jupyter, etc.

Also, please note that normal email support (support at hpcc.ucr.edu) will be
interrupted, possibly until the end of the maintenance window (direct UCR
email, listed below, will continue to work). During the move, HPCC's Slack
workspace (https://ucr-hpcc.slack.com) will be the main means of group
communication with users. We strongly encourage users to become familiar
with our Slack workspace ahead of the shutdown.

We will provide more information and additional reminders as the shutdown
gets closer.
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Contacts

Austin Leong
Sr. HPC Systems Administrator
austin.leong at ucr.edu

Emerson Jacobson
HPC Systems Administrator
emerson.jacobson at ucr.edu

Thomas Girke
Professor
Director of HPC Center
thomas.girke at ucr.edu
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