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• Blue Waters XK (GPU) resource and HPSS Nearline resources will be unavailable from 9am to 12pm on Monday July 16th

  Created by: kingda 2018-07-09 09:08:10 (Channels: scheduledoutages|systemnotices|softwareupdate)

  Blue Waters Users,

  Blue Waters XK compute resource and HPSS ncsa#Nearline resource will be undergoing maintenance Monday (July 16th) morning beginning at 9 AM. The XK compute nodes are anticipated to be unavailable for up to 3 hours. The login nodes and XE compute resource will remain in service.

  A new Programming Environment will be installed as a non-default and will be made default after a test period and subsequent announcement.

  CUDA notes: XK nodes will receive CUDA update (and associated driver) to version 9.1.  CUDA 7.5 will still be available as non-default.  CUDA 7.5 binaries have tested successfully in the CUDA 9.1 environment, but it may be necessary to recompile.  sm_20 and compute_20 are deprecated in any build or makefile setup.  People should use sm_35 and/or compute_35 to best match our Kepler K20x GPUs.

  Interim updates will be posted on the Blue Waters System News

   

  Please plan accordingly.

  Availability details: 

  Subsystem / Services	Projected Duration	Availability
  XK Compute	9am to 12pm (3 hours)	XK Unavailable
  XE Compute		Available
  Login / Filesystem		Available
  Scheduler		Available
  Globus online endpoint (ncsa#BlueWaters)		Available
  Globus online endpoint (ncsa#Nearline)	9am to 12pm (3 hours)	Unavailable

  
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  Blue Waters Users, Blue Waters XK compute resource and HPSS ncsa#Nearline resource will be undergoing maintenance Monday (July 16th) morning beginning at 9 AM. The XK compute nodes are anticipated to be unavailable for up to 3 hours. The login nodes and XE compute resource will remain in service. A new Programming Environment will be installed...
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