Scheduled Downtime Completed

To all chip users,

The maintenance on the chip cluster scheduled for Tuesday, July 28th, has been successfully completed, and the cluster is now back online and accessible. We appreciate your patience while we performed this work to optimize our storage architecture and update our software module system.

A couple things to note:

1. The module branches for 2018 and 2021 nodes have been separated. We're still working to build the modules you use most, but if you notice a module that seems to be missing from the 2018 hardware that you've used before, please file a ticket with us and we can get it rebuilt ASAP.

2. We’ve migrated all user home directories to the RRStor ceph storage cluster. Due to the change in filesystem, some users may have more or less space than they did on the old storage server. This is not a result of lost data.

If you encounter any issues, please submit a support ticket here: https://rtforms.umbc.edu/rt_authenticated/doit/DoIT-support.php?auto=Research%20Computing

For additional information, you can check our documentation at: https://umbc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/faq/pages/1082589207/UMBC+HPCF+-+chip

Thank you,
Gregory Ballantine
HPC Specialist