Major upgrade of Fox September 25--29_澳门葡京手机版app下载

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2023-08-25T12:46:45.148Z
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The operating system on Fox will be upgraded starting September 25. This is a major upgrade, and will take a week. During the upgrade, Fox will be unavailable.

Fox currently runs Rocky 8, which will be upgraded to Rocky 9, the latest version. (Rocky is a RedHat clone.) We will also upgrade the queue system (Slurm) to its latest version.

Jobs that cannot complete before the downtime will not be scheduled. Because there is a high risk that jobs submitted before the upgrade will need modification to work after the upgrade (for instance, module versions will change), all pending jobs will be cancelled when the maintenance starts.

The software available via "module load" will be reinstalled. We will install the 2021a toolchain and newer. This rebuilt software will be available on VDIs running RedHat 9 during the Fox maintenance.

Your home directories and project areas will be ava...