There will be a suspend/resume for Pleiades, Electra, Aitken, and Cabeus, and dedicated time for Lou, on Wednesday, December 11, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) to facilitate system patching. The following systems will be affected:

• Pleiades, Electra, Aitken, and Cabeus will not be available during this period, jobs cannot be submitted, and there will be no access to the Lustre or NFS filesystems.
• Jobs on Pleiades, Electra, Aitken, and Cabeus will be suspended at the beginning of the period and will be resumed at the conclusion of the period. There should be no other impact to these jobs.
• Additionally, the nobackupp27 filesystem will be upgraded during this time period which may impact jobs dependent upon it.
• Pleiades front ends (PFEs) Lou front ends (LFEs), Aitken front ends (AFEs), and Cabeus front ends (CFEs) will be unavailable during this period.

See the article Running Jobs Before Dedicated Time in the Knowledge Base to learn how to manage your jobs to run before dedicated time.

Note: The outage period has been changed since the original notice was sent, which indicated 10:00 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. (NAS User Digest, Nov. 26, 2024)