{"id":131486,"date":"2020-10-16T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?p=131486"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:49:19","slug":"research-computing-shared-computing-cluster-scc-downtime-october-19-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/2020\/10\/16\/research-computing-shared-computing-cluster-scc-downtime-october-19-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Computing Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) Downtime \u2013 October 19 \u2013 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Research Computing Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) and related services have been returned to normal operation  following the successful completion of the scheduled MGHPCC annual maintenance.<\/p>\n<div>The Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) will be <b>offline<\/b> from Monday, October 19, 9 am to Wednesday, October 21, 9 am while the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), which houses the SCC, undergoes scheduled annual maintenance. Please note that this annual maintenance is off-cycle because it was impossible to schedule in the spring due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>This mid-semester downtime <b>may be disruptive to the courses<\/b> that use the SCC for their course work. Please schedule lectures and assignments accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>RCS will post updates before, during, and after the downtime here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Downtime:<\/b> Monday, October 19, 9 am to Wednesday, October 21, 9 am.<\/li>\n<li><b>Systems Impacted:<\/b> SCC (login and batch nodes, home directories and project disk space), SCC OnDemand (scc-ondemand.bu.edu), Linux Virtual Lab (scc-lite.bu.edu), class.bu.edu, and ATLAS.<\/li>\n<li><b>Queue Draining:<\/b> The SCC scheduler will not dispatch jobs that have specified a runtime that extends beyond October 19 at 7 am. These jobs will remain pending and will run when the system returns to normal operation on October 21 at 9 am.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please email <a href=\"mailto:help@scc.bu.edu\">help@scc.bu.edu<\/a> if you have any questions or concerns.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) will be offline from Monday, October 19, 9 am to Wednesday, October 21, 9 am while the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), which houses the SCC, undergoes scheduled annual maintenance. Please note that this annual maintenance is off-cycle because it was impossible to schedule in the spring due to COVID-19&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795,1867,4612],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131579,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131486\/revisions\/131579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}