OSCER users, Resending this scheduled maintenance outage alert. Although our records show that we sent this email this past Thursday (Aug 29) at 5:48pm Central Time, we've had reports that some of y'all didn't receive it. Our apologies for that -- it's not clear what went wrong with this listserv. Henry ________________________________ From: Neeman, Henry J. <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 12:48 PM To: OSCER users <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Supercomputer/OURdisk scheduled maintenance outage Wed Sep 4 8am-midnight CT OSCER users, Supercomputer/OURdisk scheduled maintenance outage Wed Sep 4, 8am-midnight Central Time OSCER will hold a scheduled maintenance outage for the supercomputer and OURdisk, specifically: * Update the operating system to Enterprise Linux (EL) version 9.4 on one of our /home diskfull servers. * Replace OSCER's old internal database with a new, better database. * Reboot OURdisk's metadata server (MDS), to establish a new set of connections to the compute nodes and other clients, and to verify MDS backup failover. * Upgrade the 4PP data center's power infrastructure to accommodate more GPU nodes and compute nodes. * Upgrade network connectivity on one of our storage nodes. As always, we apologize for the inconvenience -- our goal is to make OSCER capabilities even better! The OSCER Team ([log in to unmask])