View source for Maintenance of scratch and work (13.02.2024)

'''The “scratch” and “work” storage systems of Euler require some urgent software updates.'''

Key points:
* This operation will be done '''on-the-fly''' without any downtime, but may cause '''scratch''' and '''work''' to be unavailable (i.e., hang) for a few minutes
* This will affect '''interactive''' sessions (login nodes) as well as '''batch''' jobs (compute nodes)
* As a precaution, pending jobs will be '''held in the queue''' during the maintenance
* Jobs that started running before the maintenance may '''briefly hang''' when they try to access scratch or work, but should otherwise run normally (i.e., should not crash)
* Jobs that do not use scratch or work '''will not be affected''' at all
* Other than that, Euler will operate normally and the batch system will accept new jobs throughout the maintenance

Start of the maintenance: Tuesday 13 February, 8:00 am

End of the maintenance: Tuesday 13 February, 12:00 pm (noon) ''at the latest''