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