Discovery Cluster: MGHPCC Annual Shutdown

Scheduled Maintenance Report for IT Services - Northeastern University

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Jun 09, 2023 - 10:46 EDT

Update

Research Computing is working to replace hardware that failed during the maintenance window, and will not be able to bring Discovery back to production status today.

We are now anticipating that the Discovery cluster will be opened by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, June 9.
Posted Jun 08, 2023 - 14:46 EDT

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Jun 05, 2023 - 03:00 EDT

Scheduled

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) will be conducting its annual shutdown for maintenance work, beginning on Monday, June 5, 2023. Northeastern’s Discovery cluster is physically located at MGHPCC and is included in this shutdown, along with the high performance cluster systems of Harvard, Boston University, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Discovery will be powered down starting at 3 a.m. ET on Monday, June 5.

All systems will be affected by the shutdown, including all compute nodes, storage (including research and archive storage), and the Open OnDemand web portal. Please be aware that any running jobs will be terminated on June 5 as the system is powered down.

We are currently anticipating that the Discovery cluster will be powered back on by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 8, given that all work is completed in a timely manner.
Posted May 31, 2023 - 11:36 EDT
This scheduled maintenance affected: Research Computing (Discovery Cluster Compute, Discovery Cluster Storage, Open onDemand, Schrodinger / Maestro).