Halstead Maintenance
The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday December 14, 2016 at 10:00am.
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 at 7:00am EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 at 10:00am EST.
During this time, Halstead will have all nodes and front-ends rebooted to the newest cluster image, which contains various OS and software updates.
Any PBS jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 at 7:00am EST will not start and will remain in the queue until after the maintenance is completed.