Notice of HOKUSAI Maintenance in October 2024

Data Science Infrastructure (HSS) and Supercomputer HOKUSAI BigWaterfall2 (HBW2) 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(HSS and HBW2):
From 5:00 p.m. on October 11 to 1:00 p.m. on October 16

For HSS, please stop VMs (instances) before the service is stopped. Any VMs that are running when the service is stopped will be forcibly terminated. In addition, snapshots cannot be taken starting from 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 10.

VMs will not start automatically after the service is restarted, so please start it by yourself. Also, if shared storage or other operations are not working properly, please try rebooting the system once.

For HBW2, 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.