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Scheduled maintenance and upgrades procedures

Summary

• Scheduled maintenance schedule

Details

ChemIT notifies cluster lead that maintenance will occur on a specific upcoming date.

• What is a long enough lead time for the group?
• What is a short enough lead time for ChemIT?

Message will state:

• Date and time of shut-down. Expected duration of shut-down.
  • Most events will occur Mon-Thur, 9am-5pm EST, when staffing and backup folks are available.
• Purpose summary.

Message will be sent to:

• Whom?

Typical work done during maintenance

• A proactive maintenance should be scheduled for approximately quarterly, and no longer than 6 months

Sample message:

To: ?
Subject: PI's ClusterName: Date/ time planned down-time.

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To all users of the PI's ClusterName,

On Date/ time, the cluster will be down for planned maintenance for 3 hours.

During this down-time, we intend to:

• Test new GPU software capabilities
• Update the OS of the storage system.
• Update the BIOS of the 4 GPU clusters.
• Update the UPS software to address current software's limitations.
• Confirm backups and review other system software configurations.

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Emergency work procedures

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