There will be a suspend/resume for Aitken, Pleiades, and Electra, on Wednesday, September 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) to facilitate kernel patching.

The following services will be affected:

• Aitken, Pleiades, and Electra will not be available during this period, jobs cannot be submitted, and there will be no access to the Lustre or NFS filesystems.
• All running jobs on Aitken, Pleiades, and Electra will be suspended at the beginning of the period and will be resumed at the conclusion of the period.
• The Lou Mass Storage System will be unavailable during this period.
• Pleiades front ends (PFEs), Lou front ends (LFEs), secure front ends (SFEs), and the NAS Data Portal will be unavailable during this period.

For helpful information about submitting a job that will run up until dedicated time, see the following Knowledge Base article: Running Jobs Before Dedicated Time.

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact the Control Room at (800) 331-8737, (650) 604-4444, or support@nas.nasa.gov.