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<Title>CorrectIon: Reminder for Downtime on taki Tuesday August 22</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22).</div><div><br></div><div>See myUMBC Posting: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453</a> for background.</div><div><br></div><div>System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Tuesday August 22 from 0800-1700. This is to perform required operating system and software stack patching. We expect (and hope) that the downtime will not require the entire nine hour duration. I will send an update toward the end of our downtime window alerting users to normal operation or the unlikely extension of the downtime window. </div><div><br></div><div>As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/">https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Roy Prouty</div><div>UMBC HPCF System Administrator</div><div><br></div></div>
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<Summary>Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22).     See myUMBC Posting: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453 for background.     System Administrators will be...</Summary>
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<Title>Reminder: Downtime on taki Tuesday August 22</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>EDIT: Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22)</div><div><br></div>See myUMBC Posting: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453</a> for background.<div><br></div><div>System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Tuesday August 22 from 0800-1700. This is to perform required operating system and software stack patching. We expect (and hope) that the downtime will not require the entire nine hour duration. I will send an update toward the end of our downtime window alerting users to normal operation or the unlikely extension of the downtime window. </div><div><br></div><div>As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/">https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Roy Prouty</div><div>UMBC HPCF System Administrator</div></div>
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<Summary>EDIT: Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22)    See myUMBC Posting: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453 for background.    System Administrators will be...</Summary>
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    <div class="html-content"><span><p><span>To all HPCF Users:</span></p><br><p><span>DoIT will be scheduling a series of downtimes over the next two months in order to provide system administrators with time to upgrade and improve various aspects of both the ada and taki cluster environments. Every effort will be made to preserve running jobs and limit downtimes to only what is necessary for the improvements.</span></p><br><p><span>August 8, 0700-0900 for patching storage servers</span></p><p><span>August 22, 0800-1700 for upgrade taki OS and management software stack</span></p><p><span>August 29, 0800-1700 for upgrade ada OS and management software stack</span></p><p><span>September 12, 0800-1700 for upgrading taki SLURM</span></p><p><span>September 19, 0800-1700 for upgrading ada SLURM</span></p><br><p><span>As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.</span></p><br><p><span><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/">https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/</a>
    
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<Summary>To all HPCF Users:   DoIT will be scheduling a series of downtimes over the next two months in order to provide system administrators with time to upgrade and improve various aspects of both the...</Summary>
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<Title>Math 447/627 Introduction to Parallel Computing</Title>
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<Title>Taki still having issues</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">There are still problems with Taki. I am currently working on rebooting the nodes across the cluster. If you see nodes marked as draining or drained, these will be rebooted. This is an ongoing problem and I am working on getting this resolved. I'll update you once I have more information.<div><br></div><div>--------</div><div>Randy Philipp</div><div><a href="mailto:randy@umbc.edu">randy@umbc.edu</a></div></div>
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<Title>Taki is again having issues</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">We are again experiencing issues with the Slurm scheduler on Taki. If you currently have jobs running on Taki, please be aware that you may need to rerun these jobs. It is very possible we may need to reboot the cluster to resolve and current running jobs may be lost.<div><br></div><div>I will provide an update when I have more information.</div><div><br></div><div>--------</div><div>Randy Philipp</div><div><a href="mailto:randy@umbc.edu">randy@umbc.edu</a></div></div>
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<Title>Resume use of taki</Title>
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<Summary>To all taki users,     Users can begin normal use of the taki cluster environment. Running jobs at the start of the downtime were unaffected.     Roy Prouty  UMBC HPCF System Administrator</Summary>
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<Title>Sunsetting of 2013 hardware on taki</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>To all taki users,</div><div><br></div><div>tl;dr: Equipment from 2013 (both the batch and gpu partitions) will be disabled on August 15, 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>These Dell PowerEdge R620 &amp; R720 nodes were purchased in 2013 as a part of an NSF MRI “Acquisition of Hybrid CPU/GPU Nodes for the Interdisciplinary UMBC High Performance Computing Facility”. After installation, this hardware constituted the bulk of the UMBC community resource known as the maya cluster as a part of the UMBC HPCF. While these nodes represented the majority of the computing power of the cluster from 2013-2018, they have been supplanted by the 2017 MRI purchase, and the 2019 GPU ada cluster purchase and no longer see much usage. </div><div><br></div><div>In addition, for the past year and a half, the utilization of the 2013 hardware partitions (batch and gpu) has been persistently decreasing to what is now a small fraction of their historical monthly utilization*. Also, the advanced age of the hardware is leading to more frequent hardware failures in these partitions, many of which cause jobs to fail, leading to lost work in addition to staff-hours associated with triage and repair. These nodes are also the least energy efficient of the cluster, using more power and cooling than the newer, more reliable nodes. </div><div><br></div><div>Given all of these points, we will be disabling these partitions on August 15, 2023 so we can focus on keeping a high-performing and reliable cluster for the campus community.</div><div><br></div><div>Since 2013, other NSF MRIs (in 2017 &amp; 2019) and various community buy-ins orchestrated by dedicated faculty and staff have grown the UMBC HPCF into what is now two clusters, ada and taki. As noted above, these machines represent comparable compute power with less demand of power, cooling, and maintenance by UMBC HPCF System Administrators.</div><div><br></div><div>We encourage any remaining workflows utilizing the 2013 nodes to transition to the newer hardware. As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns–please submit an RT ticket via the form found at </div><div>(<a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/">https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/</a>) or by navigating to hpcf.umbc.edu &gt; “Forms” &gt; “HPCF Help Request Form”.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Roy Prouty</div><div>UMBC HPCF System Administrator</div><div><br></div><div>*For more information about usage trends on the taki cluster, see (<a href="http://hpcf-files.umbc.edu/research/usage_statistics.pdf">http://hpcf-files.umbc.edu/research/usage_statistics.pdf</a>) or navigate to hpcf.umbc.edu &gt; “Research” &gt; “Usage Statistics”</div><div><br></div></div>
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    <div class="html-content">Due to problems with one of our Infiniband switches, a number of 2013 nodes (batch nodes) are currently offline. The repair of the IB switch is taking substantial longer than we had anticipated. We are still working with the vendor to get the switch back online. We will keep you updated as work proceeds.</div>
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<Summary>Due to problems with one of our Infiniband switches, a number of 2013 nodes (batch nodes) are currently offline. The repair of the IB switch is taking substantial longer than we had anticipated....</Summary>
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