Scheduled downtime of Fritz and Helma clusters from October 06
There will be a long scheduled downtime of the Fritz and Helma clusters,
- starting on Monday, October 06,
- and lasting at least until Friday, October 10.
While the general expectation is that the clusters will be back by Friday night, the downtime might have to be extended over the weekend.
Reason for the downtime is the (massively delayed) installation of new transformers for the building housing Fritz and Helma.
As usual, jobs that would collide with the downtime will automatically be postponed until after the downtime.
The frontends and parallel filesystems (/lustre, /hnvme) of these clusters should stay available during the downtime, but with electricians literally ripping out all power supply going into the building, lets just say there is a certain risk that things might not entirely go to plan.
We will keep this post updated.