Article #910: Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies
Some reminders about the current operational status of Halstead: Halstead is currently in early access testing mode. The system is still being fully...
Some reminders about the current operational status of Halstead: Halstead is currently in early access testing mode. The system is still being fully...
Halstead's module stack is configured in a hierarchical fashion, a change from the "flat" module configuration on previous clusters. This ch...
Update: Engineers were able to isolate the problem and restart the necessary systems. The Data Depot should be available again. Halstead users should...
The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 1:00pm EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstea...
The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday December 14, 2016 at 10:00am. Orig...
The Halstead cluster is back online as of 4:50 PM after scheduled early-access maintenance. Unfortunately, queued jobs were lost due to complications...
The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 at 10:00am EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstea...
The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:00pm. Orig...
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgra...
Following the security updates on Halstead, an issue was discovered that prevented multi-node MPI jobs from running properly. Scheduling on Halstead h...
Halstead nodes continue to come back online. While the cluster is operating normally, the total amount of available nodes is not yet at full capacity...
The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to f...
The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longe...
Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you...
Nodes have continued to gradually reboot into the new image as jobs complete. At this point, more than 80% of Halstead has completed this process, an...
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries i...
Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are back in full production. Job scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. Please let us know if you see a...
After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28,...
A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are wo...
Access to Data Depot from the Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters has hung starting around Thursday, September 7th, 2017...