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Gaussian will disappear from Kebnekaise on 13th of January, 2025
Filesystem maintenance 2025-01-07 - 2025-01-10, Kebnekaise unavailable
Network maintenance 2024-12-06
HPC2N Center Local rounds for 2025 are now open for proposals
Information on new resources in Kebnekaise 2024-08-26
New nodes available on Kebnekaise, 2024-06-05
2024-06-12 15.00 Compute clusters and access nodes down for maintance on power
Batch queues down, 2024-04-11, Problem solved 12:30
Maintenance on Kebnekaise, 2024-03-20 09:00, DONE 09:30
External HPC2N connectivity intermittently down, 2024-02-26, 18-22
Thinlinc login to Kebnekaise currently unavailable, 2024-02-08 09:30, *DONE*
Main HPC2N router rebooting 2024-01-03 14:30
Unexpected cooling failure 2023-12-04 00:30 Kebnekaise down, *RESOLVED 20231204 1114*
Maintenance on Kebnekaise file system 2023-11-15 - 2023-11-17 *FINISHED*
Maintenance on Kebnekaise 2023-10-12 - 2023-10-13
New hardware available on Kebnekaise including new GPUs
2023-06-09 A mishap with Slurm caused a loss of the job accounting data for Kebnekaise jobs today between 00:00 and 16:40
Password changing/resetting temporarily disabled 2023-04-12
2023-01-24 07:37 File system down, login not working (RESOLVED 09:40)
2023-01-30 07:00 Planned maintenance of the cooling systems and central file system (FINISHED 2023-02-02 20:30)
2023-01-17 11:30 File system down, login not working (RESOLVED 13:00)
2022-12-05 File system down, login not working (SOLVED 23:58)
Kebnekaise loginnode maintenance 2022-10-24
File system down, 2022-10-06 login not working (SOLVED 2022-10-06 21:40)
Problems with the file system - affecting login, etc. (2022-09-26) ** FIXED **
2022-09-02 08:30 File system server problems, logins affected (SOLVED 2022-09-02 23:40)
2022-08-05 08:32 File system server problems, logins affected (SOLVED 2022-08-05 10:20)
2022-07-14 07:10 File system server problems, logins affected (FIXED 2022-0714 08:10)
2022-07-06 10:00: File system server problems, logins affected. FIXED 2022-07-08 10:30
Maintenance on the file system 2022-06-(27-30) *DONE 20220701 15:00*
2022-06-10 07:00 Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems (UPDATE 2022-06-14: Still problems)
2022-06-08 16:00 Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems (SOLVED 2022-06-08 18:00)
Follow-up Cooling maintenance computer hall, cluster down 2022-04-05 13:00 (Finished 16.00)
Cooling problem in computer hall, cluster down 2022-04-04 14:00
Maintenance on the cooling system for the cluster compute datacenter 2022-03-24 05.00 (Closed 2022-03-25 12:20)
Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems 2022-03-09 09:30
Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems 2022-03-02 08:00
Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems 2022-02-26 13:30
Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems 2022-02-24 (SOLVED 18:14)
Kebnekaise and Cluster maintenance at HPC2N 2021-11-15 06:00 - 2021-11-17 17:00
Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems 2021-10-28 12:45 (CLOSED 15:15)
Upgrade of thinlinc system 2021-10-05 *FINISHED*
Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems 2021-09-08 08:00 (Resolved 13:00)
Maintance Revision high voltage 2021-08-16 18.00 - 2021-08-17 17:20 (CLOSED)
Slurm controller problem (2021-07-07) SOLVED 13:27
Problems with project storage (2021-06-11) *SOLVED 2021-06-12 01:17*
Minor upgrade to $HOME and project storage file servers 2021-05-26 - FINISHED
Upgrade to Ubuntu Focal on clusters starting 2021-04-19 *UPDATED 2021-04-27, DONE*
Problems with home-directories and project storage (2021-04-01) *SOLVED 2021-04-06*
Cluster maintenance at HPC2N 2021-03-22 - 2021-03-25, *FINISHED*
2021-02-11 Storage system issues causes Kebnekaise login and fileaccess problems *RESOLVED*
Migrating away from /pfs/nobackup at HPC2N
2020-01-13 CVMFS issues affects local software and modules *Resolved*
Bus error on Kebnekaise
Kebnekaise inaccessible, 2020-12-09 *FINISHED*
Maintenance on storage file system, batch queues stopped 2020-12-01 08:30 *FINISHED*
New storage system for users and project storage at HPC2N, maintenance window starting 2020-11-12 08:00 *FINISHED*
Name resolution outage 2020-10-10 (resolved)
Urgent repairs to city cooling network affects HPC2N compute resources (2020-10-01 - 2020-02-10)
Abisko Decommissioning, end of September 2020
Amber 18 update 17 with AmberTools 19 update 12 now available
RELION 3.1.0 available
Short maintenance on parallel file system servers, 2020-06-23 08:00
Kebnekaise accessnodes maintenance 2020-06-02 06:05 - delayed to 08.00
HPC2N is currently suffering from a University wide power failure, *FINISHED 11:50*
Temporary problem with HOME dir file servers 20200526, *Fixed 08:25*
Login disabled due to ongoing security concerns, *Login re-enabled 20200514 13:07*
Maintenance on cooling system affecting both clusters 2020-05-11 *FINISHED*
Power maintenance affects Kebnekaise and Abisko, Monday 2020-04-20 and Tuesday 2020-04-21 *Clusters and login nodes now up again*
Cluster queues suspended, 2019-12-06, Solved 2019-12-07 14:30
Maintenance on cooling system affects Kebnekaise and Abisko, 2019-10-16 - 17
AFS home directories inaccessible on Kebnekaise (resolved)
Upgrade of Lustre servers to solve the last weeks problems 2019-07-(01-05) (clusters now UP again)
Continued severe problems with pfs (2019-06-25)
Severe problems with the PFS filesystem (updated 2019-06-24 11:35)
pfs file system slow/misbehaving (affects both Kebnekaise and Abisko)
Abisko: Rack 2 lost power/down
*RESOLVED* pfs file system slow/down, 2019-04-04
Unplanned cluster issues due to switchboard failure
2019-03-13 - Power outage at HPC2N. *Clusters back up*
Intermittent pfs file system slowness
Maintenance window, monday 2019-03-04 09:00 - 13:00, all clusters affected
Lost power to the clusters. *Power and clusters back*
Electrical maintenance 20190128 07:30 - 18:00, all clusters down
Problem with /pfs/nobackup file system, 2019-01-03 16:30, Resolved
Power failure at Umeå University, all clusters down, 20181126 09:40, *UPDATE 15:40*
Power failure in Umeå, all clusters at HPC2N down. 20181112 14:10 (*Systems online again*)
Power failure at HPC2N, both clusters down, 20181019 19:15, *SOLVED 20181022 13:00*
GPU outage on Kebnekaise (resolved)
Kebnekaise running jobs failed 2018-09-05 18:44
Downtime, all systems: 2018-08-13, 18:00 - 2018-08-14, 10:00
Skylake and Volta nodes down. *UP NOW*
Intel Skylake and NVIDIA Volta gpu nodes now available to users
Maintenance work are complete
Maintenance affecting all HPC2N systems between 2018-06-04 and 2018-06-08
Maintenance for Slurm (batch system) upgrade on Abisko and Kebnekaise: 2018-03-16
Allinea and Matlab unavailability 15 February 2018 18:00-18:30
TensorFlow 1.5.0 now installed on Kebnekaise for both CPU and GPU
Problems with the batch system on Abisko (*solved*)
File system problem on /pfs/nobackup, queues stopped: 2018-01-24 19:22; *SOLVED*
Problems with login on Abisko and Kebnekaise SOLVED
Kernel upgrades may cause slight disturbances - 2018-01-10
Cooling system maintenance, all clusters down 2017-12-19, *CANCELED*
2017-11-18: Cluster login unavailable *RESOLVED*
Problem with hpc2n mail support address. *SOLVED*
Software stack on Kebnekaise rebuilt 20171018
Maintenance window, batch jobs will not run (2017-09-04 08:00)
Connectivity issues - RESOLVED (2017-08-02)
Small power outage on Saturday morning (2017-07-08)
2017-06-29: Disruptive Lustre server issues, queues suspended (22:45 queues now re-enabled)
2017-06-21: Login nodes reboot at 12:00
2017-06-28: Maintenance on the Lustre file system finished, queues running again
2017-06-13: Resolved: PFS outage. Systems back to normal.
2017-06-09 Maintenance is now over.
Theano 0.9.0 with full cuDNN support installed on Kebnekaise
srun works again
2017-06-07 - 09 Major file system maintenance, all systems down
Abisko maintenance window 2017-05-23 08:00 - 17:00
Intel Xeon Phi 7250 (KNL) nodes are available
2017-05-10: The temporary Abisko-x.hpc2n.umu.se has been removed
2017-05-09: Abisko ordinary login node now online, running Xenial
Abisko back in production
Kebnekaise now back in production
Maintenance on Lustre affecting both Kebnekaise and Abisko on 2017-04-19, 2017-04-20
Upgrade of Abisko from Ubuntu Precise to Ubuntu Xenial
Bug causing spurious BUS errors now fixed
Core network equipment restart on Monday 2017-03-06 20:00-00:00
Batch queue malfunction on Kebnekaise
Emacs on Kebnekaise
projinfo is finally available on Kebnekaise
MATLAB 2016b is now available on Kebnekaise
Network problems on Abisko, 2017-02-07
Network maintenance 2017-02-06 20:00 - 24:00, all queues blocked from starting new jobs
Problem with filesystem on Kebnekaise - 2016-12-21 (FIXED)
t-mn02 (Abisko) - brief interruption, 2016-12-15, 16:30
Kebnekaise - removing toolchains intel 2015b,2016a, and 2016b
Possible network interruptions in the Umeå University network, 2016-10-27
PFS problems (SOLVED)
Abisko login node has intermittent problems, 2016-10-18 SOLVED
Matlab 2016b
/pfs/nobackup down - 2016-10-04 - BACK UP AGAIN
Kebnekaise page created
2016-09-06: Maintenance on the /pfs/nobackup filesystem, Abisko will be stopped.
Maintenance window on Abisko 2016-08-11 08:00 - 11:00
AFS problems
AFS is back online
Abisko down due to major power failure in Umeå (power and /pfs/nobackup are now back)
Pfs problems (solved)
Abisko down due to upgrade of the Lustre filesystem (/pfs/nobackup) 2016-05-02 - 2016-05-04 (at least)
Abisko down due to maintenance of the cooling system 20160413-14 (*FINISHED*)
Abisko now back online after the maintenance
AFS failure on abisko login node
/pfs/nobackup file system unavailable
Abisko down due to network problems
Akka will be retired at end of March
/pfs/nobackup currently not responding (solved now)
/pfs/nobackup problems
/pfs/nobackup unavailable
/pfs/nobackup currently not responding again, ALL batch queues stopped (FIXED AGAIN)
Maintenance on Akka 2015-10-15 - 16, batch queues will be stopped
Power maintenance 2015-09-18 06:30, batch nodes will be drained of running jobs.
Batch queues stopped due to /pfs/nobackup being out of inodes (files). (Partially fixed)
pfs problems (solved)
/pfs/nobackup filesystem now back in production
Electrical maintenance causing problems
Scheduled electrical maintenance, Wed Aug 19 09:00-14:00
PFS down (resolved)
PFS inaccessible
Problem with pfs
Driver issues with Abisko interconnect.
/pfs/nobackup file system have failed
The /pfs/nobackup problems from 2015-05-27 are currently solved
/pfs/nobackup file system having problems again
/pfs/nobackup back online
pfs read-only
pfs problems
/pfs/nobackup not accessible
Akka login node is having disk problems
Abisko login node crashed/rebooted
Batch queues stopped on Abisko and Akka
Problem with /pfs/nobackup file system
/pfs/nobackup file system maintenance finally done
Christmas holidays
Batch system OK
Problems with batch system
Power outage the 24th
The new center storage system is now available
New center storage system
Downtime due to cooling/ventilation system maintenance
Problems with batchjobs on Abisko and Akka clusters.
Large scale test of new center storage, Abisko not running jobs
Downtime on Abisko for large scale testing of our new center storage
Power outage - Abisko and Akka affected
Quantum Espresso 5.1 installed on Abisko and Akka
Downtime due to installation of new cluster file system
Power failure
Abisko Slurm upgrade 2014-06-11 from 08:00
Akka Slurm upgrade 2014-06-03 from 08:00
Akka batch server being move to another system
Problem with /pfs/nobackup filesystem on Abisko
Akka has been upgraded to Ubuntu Precise 12.04
Akka being upgraded to the same environment as Abisko
/pfs/nobackup full - PLEASE remove old files!
Abisko bigmem partition being upgraded
Gromacs 4.6.5 installed on Abisko
Reduced HPC2N support during Holiday Break
Octave 3.6.4 installed on Abisko
Abisko batch system server to be upgraded
Bigmem partition on Abisko now upgraded to Precise
Upgrade of Abisko login node now finished
Upgrade of Abisko's operating system has now started
Power failure at HPC2N
Power failure at HPC2N
Upgrade of Abisko's operating system from Ubuntu Lucid to Ubuntu Precise
Network maintenance, 2013-11-04 22:00-24:00
Network Maintenance 2013-10-07 21:00 - 2013-10-08 01:00
Network Maintenance, 2013-10-07 12:00 - 15:00
/pfs/nobackup filesystem full, queues stopped
Siesta 3.2 installed on Abisko
Scheduled network outage
Power Outage
/pfs/nobackup file system back online
/pfs/nobackup file system missing
Maintenance on /pfs/nobackup storage, 2013-07-08
/pfs/nobackup file system back online
More problem with /pfs/nobackup filesystem
Problem with /pfs/nobackup filesystem on Abisko
Batch system on Abisko working again. May 8
Problems with the batch system on Abisko. May 8
Gromacs 4.6.1 installed on Abisko
Batch system (slurm) upgrade on Abisko February 6th, from 09:00
HPC2N resources unavailable February 4th, from 22:00 to 24:00
VASP upgraded on Abisko
R 2.15.2 available on Abisko
Amber 12 installed on Abisko
/pfs/nobackup file system > 95% full, no jobs will start on Akka
Amber 11 patchlevel 23 installed on Akka
Parallel file system performance
DDT 3.2 installed on Abisko
OpenMPI 1.6.1 installed on Abisko
Gamess-US intalled on Abisko
Intel Parallel Studio version 2013 installed on Abisko
Quantum ESPRESSO 5.0.1 installed on Abisko
Abinit 6.12.3 installed on Abisko
Nwchem 6.1.1 installed on Abisko
Power Maintenance
Abisko unavailable due to one final acceptance test job.
Abisko unavailable due to TOP500 runs May 21-27
Power failure in Umeå
Power outage
/pfs/nobackup filesystem now back in production again
Abisko login node reboot on Wednesday
Problem with /pfs/nobackup filesystem
Akka login node rebooted
License rules for SIESTA has changed
Matlab 2011b
Gaussian 09 Revision C.01 on Abisko
Abisko - down for transistion to the final system
Abisko - final system online
Abisko system downtime
GPFS problems (updates here when available)
GPFS problem now solved
Abisko now available again
Abisko unavailable due to system maintenance
Installation: Part B of Abisko
Maintenance on /pfs/nobackup and /hsm file systems.
Gaussian 09 Revision C.01
Emergency work at Umeå university core network
a test news with no from/to date
Cooling fixed - Akka and Ritsem running jobs again
Cooling maintenance
Complete power outage Tuesday Aug 16 06:00-06:30
Electrical maintenance in one computer room June 14th
Systems now back in production
Electrical maintenance in one computer room May 2nd to 10th
The Batch-system works normally again
Problems with the batch-system on Akka
Power failure on Akka and Ritsem
Home directories working again
Problems with home directories
Sarek blocked due to emergency work on cooling system.
Short power failure on Akka and Ritsem (2011-01-07)
Nwchem 6.0
Gromacs 4.5.3
Power is back on Akka
Power fail on Akka
R upgraded to version 2.11.1
Web graphs unavailable, now back online.
Logins enabled again
Logins temporarily disabled for security reasons
Gromacs 4.5.1
WRF 3.2
Gaussian 09 Revision B.01
New logins to Akka temporarily blocked
Akka again accepts login
Planned cooling outage on UmU Campus Wed June 30
Release of our new website
Akka will be retired at end of March
Updated:
2024-12-12, 13:22