{"id":111,"date":"2015-07-02T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srvcnthpc001.uct.ac.za\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2022-09-20T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:01:37","slug":"hpc-maintenance-policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/hpc-maintenance-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_boxes valign_middle\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\r\n\t\t\t<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Maintenance<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ICTS has several data centers across campus and has a maintenance policy for each center. Additionally the HPC team has maintenance tasks that need to be carried out on the firmware, operating system and application software of the HPC nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Most maintenance slots do not require a full shut down of the data centers and your submitted jobs should continue running, however access to the cluster may be limited. If we are aware of a\u00a0full data center shutdown it will be highlighted on this page, our <a href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/blog-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a> and\u00a0the dashboards. We will also attempt to contact our users well in advance.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/icts.uct.ac.za\/about-icts\/scheduled-icts-maintenance-slots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maintenance dates for ICTS data centers<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h6>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maintenance ICTS has several data centers across campus and has a maintenance policy for each center. Additionally the HPC team has maintenance tasks that need to be carried out on the firmware, operating system and application software of the HPC nodes. 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