Flash Info No 2024-14
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Jean Zay will be unavailable from Wednesday, June 19th at 8am to Friday, June 21st at noon in order to perform some operations on the infrastructure of IDRIS required to finalize the installation of the H100 extension of Jean Zay.
The login nodes, A100 nodes, pre/post-processing nodes and storage spaces will nevertheless be usable from Wednesday, June 19th around 2pm to Friday, June 21st at 8am. The jobs targeting those nodes will be executed as long as their maximum elapsed time is short enough.
Additionally, during that downtime, the operating system of the Jean Zay supercomputer will be downgraded to Red Hat 8.6 due to some stability issues affecting the accesses to the filesystems since the upgrade to Red Hat 9.2. This downgrade will take effect on Wednesday afternoon.
This operating system version change should have a limited impact on your use of the machine. Nevertheless, we recommend that you recompile your codes once after the update, even if the majority of them should continue to work without any action on your part.
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by those operations. In case of problems, contact the IDRIS Support.
Best regards, The IDRIS user support team