This is the first place I've had regularly scheduled maintenance, too,
and boy does it make life easier. In most of my previous jobs, it was a
small enough environment that it wasn't necessary.
On 3/22/19 1:57 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
On 3/22/19 10:31 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
Most HPC centers have scheduled downtime on a regular basis.
That's not my experience before now, where I've worked in Australia we
scheduled maintenance for when we absolutely had to do them, but there
could be delays to them if there were critical workloads from users.
Here at NERSC we do have monthly maintenances and it makes life a lot
easier, especially as we are pretty much always upgrading Slurm (new
patches, even if there isn't a new release).
All the best,
Chris
