REMINDER: EXTENDED DOWNTIME for Biowulf/HPC December 8-11, 2022

A reminder to all Biowulf/HPC users that there will be an extended downtime of the HPC/Biowulf Cluster starting on Thursday December 8 at 8 pm and running until Sunday December 11 at 8 pm to allow for required upgrades to the HPC storage systems. Email will be sent to NIH HPC users once all HPC services have been restored.

During this four day maintenance window the following HPC services will be unavailable to NIH HPC users:

- Biowulf login node & cluster
- Helix (the HPC data transfer node)
- HPCdrive
- Partek Flow
- All Globus endpoints including NIH HPC Data Transfer, S3, GCP, and One Drive

Note that a batch system reservation is being put into place for the downtime period.  This means that the batch system scheduler will not start jobs that will not end before the start of the reservation. Therefore, you should carefully choose job time limits so as not to unnecessarily delay your jobs.  Any running Biowulf jobs will be terminated at 8 pm on December 8. 

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Please contact staff@hpc.nih.gov with any questions about the NIH HPC Systems