April maintenance window closed

The service on April 1th will begin at 09:00 CET. The queues on Irma, Rackham will not be stopped. The queues on Bianca will be stopped as we update the project storage system Castor and the Bianca control plane. The queues on Snowy will be stopped as we introduce general resources (–gres) in the Slurm configuration.

You can follow our progress on this page throughout the day.

Update 2020-04-02 16:00

Bianca is back in production now, and we are closing the maintenance window.

Update 2020-04-02 12:00

Bianca is expected to be finished soon.

Update 2020-04-02 09:00

We are still working on the cluster side of Bianca, but Castor and all other affected systems are ready and accessible.

Update 2020-04-01 19:00

Maintenance on Snowy is completed. Bianca is delayed due to issues with Castor. We have resolved most of the issues today and we expect Bianca to return to production early tomorrow.

Update 2020-04-01 17:00

Snowy is expected to be completed shortly. Maintenance on Bianca and Castor is still on-going.

Update 2020-04-01 15:00

Rackham is ready now, and we are still working on Snowy, Bianca and castor. Next update at 17:00

Update 2020-04-01 12:00

Our maintenance work is going on without issues. Snowy and Bianca are still not in production. Next update comes at 15:00.

Update 2020-04-01 09:00

Maintenance begins.