OSCER users,
Schooner maintenance has completed. If you experience any issues please let
us know.

We apologize for the inconvenience -- our goal is to make
OSCER systems and services even better!

The OSCER Team ([log in to unmask])


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:26 AM David Akin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> OSCER users,
> Schooner maintenance is now starting. The maintenance is scheduled until
> midnight tonight Oklahoma time.
>
> Dave
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 10:36 AM Henry Neeman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> OSCER users,
>>
>> REMINDER:
>>
>> Because of Schooner's scheduled maintenance outage this coming
>> Wed (May 11), if you submit batch jobs to Schooner between now
>> and then, it might happen that those jobs get delayed until
>> after the scheduled maintenance outage ends.
>>
>> You can get such jobs to run before the scheduled maintenance
>> outage by reducing the amount of wall clock time you request,
>> specifically the following #SBATCH directive:
>>
>> #SBATCH --time=DD-HH:MM:SS
>>
>> OR
>>
>> #SBATCH -t DD-HH:MM:SS
>>
>> DD: 2-digit number of days
>> HH: 2-digit number of hours
>> MM: 2-digit number of minutes
>> SS: 2-digit number of seconds
>>
>> (Or you might use a different time format, like HH:MM:SS
>> without the number of days and the hyphen.)
>>
>> For example, if you submit the job at noon today, be sure to
>> request at most 44 hours (you should probably request 40 hours
>> or less, to have a margin of error).
>>
>> We apologize for the inconvenience -- our goal is to make
>> OSCER systems and services even better!
>>
>> The OSCER Team ([log in to unmask])
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> On Thu, 5 May 2022, Henry Neeman wrote:
>>
>> >OSCER users,
>> >
>> >This coming Wednesday (May 11) 8:00am-midnight, we'll hold
>> >an outage to upgrade to the most recent stable version of
>> >the Slurm batch system (sbatch, squeue, etc), to resolve
>> >a security vulnerability in older versions of Slurm.
>> >
>> >During the outage, batch jobs won't be able to run.
>> >
>> >This means that, on Monday and Tuesday, if you want a job to
>> >run, you'll need to make sure that it'll be able to end
>> >by Wednesday 8:00am (so you might need to reduce its
>> >time limit).
>> >
>> >We apologize for the inconvenience -- our goal is to make
>> >OSCER systems and services even better!
>> >
>> >The OSCER Team ([log in to unmask])
>>
>