[Bi-users] Bi login node reboots on June 21

[Kent Engström]

kent at nsc.liu.se (Kent Engström) writes:
> Dear Bi Users,
>
> we need to reboot the login nodes (and the system server) to complete
> the upgrade to CentOS 6.8.
>
> As some filesystems will be down on June 21 from 13 to 19 CEST (see
> below), we decided to plan the reboot period for 17-19 CEST the same
> day.
>
> As usual, login node processes and interactive jobs will be killed,
> while batch jobs should survive, as we will update compute nodes between
> jobs.

The server updates have now been done and you are welcome to login
again.

The concurrent file system updates (see below) have run into some
delays and will probably not be finished at 19.00 CEST. Peter B will
update you on the status later.

>
> Peter Bortas <zino at nsc.liu.se> writes:
>> Dead Accumulus users,
>>
>> We need to do some major upgrades of the older generations of
>> Accumulus filesystems. After conferring with SMHIs user
>> representatives we have decided to do this in two batches on the
>> following days:
>>
>> Thursday, June 9, 13:00-19:00: The filesystems fouo2, rossby15,
>> rossby16 and smhid9 will be upgraded.
>>
>> Tuesday, June 21, 13:00-19:00: The filesystems fouo3, rossby17 and
>> smhid10 will be upgraded.
>>
>> During this window the filesystems being upgraded will not be
>> available. Any processes/jobs that have open file on them when we try
>> to unmount the filesystems will be killed.

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Kent Engström, National Supercomputer Centre
kent at nsc.liu.se, +46 13 28 4444