Louise Scheduled Downtime Oct 2014

Monday, October 6, 2014 - 12:00am to Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 12:00am

The HPC Team will be performing maintenance on the Louise cluster. The downtime will take place Monday 06-Oct-2014 through Wednesday 08-Oct-2014. All running jobs on Louise will be terminated and files will not be accessible during the downtime. Please plan accordingly.

Update: Scheduled downtime is completed. The following work was performed:

  • cabling and network addressing to facilitate Hitachi -> Cloud Data Migrator
  • Hitachi SMU upgraded
  • Hitachi Hi-Track monitor software upgraded
  • Hitachi BlueArc heads upgraded
  • firmware updates applied to Hitachi HUS-130’s and HUS-150
  • new linux kernel applied to compute nodes and support servers
  • Torque and Moab updates applied
  • Dell firmware and out-of-band management updates applied
  • storage benchmarks performed before and after work was performed
  • scratch data consolidated to single filesystem
  • cluster confidence benchmarks performed

Benchmarks