ISC, RIKEN

The following emergency maintenance tasks will be performed at the HOKUSAI SailingShip system data farm (shared storage).
This is because a problem was discovered in the redundant network equipment of the file server that took a very long time to switch when a failure occurred. Data stored on shared storage is not affected.

Date: Monday, February 21, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Includes: Data Farm Equipment Firmware Update
Impact: During the work period, the following will not be available.
* Accesing the OpenStack Management Console
* Using VMs (Instance)
* Accesing the online submission system
Request:
* please stopped VMs (instances) by February 21 10:00.
Any vm that are running when the emergency maintenance is started will be forcibly terminated
* VMs will not start automatically after the emergency maintenance is completed, so please start it by yourself.

In addition, due to the above maintenance, NextCloud, NextCloud Portal, and the Online Submission System(accc-desk) of HOKUSAI BigWaterfall(BW) will not be available during the following period.
(HBW itself can be used as usual.)
Date: Monday, February 21, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Accepting period

Notice

• Since the application system will be closed automatically at the deadline, please complete submitting process including uploading the files in advance with a margin by the deadline.
  • please complete submitting process including uploading the files in advance with a margin by the deadline.
• Users and projects who do not submit the Usage Report by the submission deadline will not be allowed to use RIKEN Supercomputer after the next FY.

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Supercomputer HOKUSAI BigWaterfall(HBW) and Data Science Infrastructure(HSS) will be stopped in the schedule below due to the planned power outage in Wako campus. At that time, regular maintenance will also be performed.

Downtime(HOKUSAI BW and SS):
from 5:00 p.m. on October 8 to 3:00 p.m. on October 12
from 5:00 p.m. on October 15 to 3:00 p.m. on October 18

For BW, note that job execution control will be performed before the downtime: Jobs that are expected not to end until the start time of the downtime will be not started. After resuming operation, the unstarted jobs will be started.

For SS, please stop VMs (instances) before the service is stopped. Any VMs that are running when the service is stopped will be forcibly terminated. VMs will not start automatically after the service is restarted, so please start it by yourself.