(May 1)Notice of Emergency Maintenance for HBW2[Completed]

We will perform emergency maintenance on the HBW2 front-end servers and compute
nodes today, May 1, from 12:00 to 15:00 JST.
The Emergency maintenance has been completed, and operations resumed on Friday, May 1 at 13:45 (JST).
Please note that the system will be unavailable during the maintenance period.

All login sessions active at the start of the maintenance will be disconnected.
Additionally, any jobs running at the start of maintenance will be forcibly terminated as part of the maintenance process.
Jobs that have been configured for re-execution (with the –requeue option) will be restarted after maintenance.
For all other jobs, please resubmit them after operations resume.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

HBW2 contact

HSS/HBW2 Maintenance Information at the end of FY2025

The Data Science Infrastructure HOKUSAI SailingShip (HSS)

HSS (including R2DMS and RARS) will continue to operate at the end of the fiscal year, but only the online submission system (hss-desk) will be stopped during the following period for the end-of-fiscal-year update.
HSS VMs, shared storage, OpenStack management console, etc. will not be stopped.
Various services running on HSS (including R2DMS and RARS) will continue to operate, unless otherwise specified.

Service suspension period(hss-desk): March 31, 1:00 p.m. to April 2, 10:00 a.m.

After the service resumes, we will start accepting applications for new project use and point purchases for FY2025.
HSS TOP

The Supercomputer HOKUSAI BigWaterfall2 (HBW2)

HBW2 will undergo maintenance at the end of the fiscal year, so all services will be suspended for the following period.

Service suspension period: March 31, 1:00 p.m. to April 2, 10:00 a.m.
*All jobs that have been submitted as of 1:00 p.m. on March 31 will be deleted.

After the service resumes, we will begin accepting new project applications and other applications for FY2026.
HBW2 TOP

HBW2 RIKEN project users are required to submit a usage report.
* Only the Project Representative and Assistant Project Representative may submit the usage report.

* HPCI project users are not eligible for this guidance on submitting a user report. Please follow the guidance from HPCI.
HPCI Portal Site

Accepting period

If you do not submit by the deadline, you will not be able to use the supercomputer.

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