We are planning an upgrade to the HPC software stack during the week beginning August 16. Unlike previous software upgrades, we will perform a rolling upgrade to minimize downtime. This means that parts of the cluster will remain online while other parts are being upgraded.

Schedule

We plan on performing the maintenance during the week of August 16 - 20. We will send out an email and update this webpage when we have a detailed draft schedule prepared (est 2-3 weeks).

The Research Computing Center at FSU has an open position for a data-science research technology specialist. The Research Technical Specialist will provide programming consultation, technical advice, and troubleshooting support on behalf of a diverse array of researchers across the university who are engaged with Research IT.

The contractor working for FSU, Arbitron-Williams, will be working on the electrical and HVAC systems over the last weekend in May

The project is currently underway, and is schedule to complete in late August. There will be a power outage and system downtime from April 29 at 5pm - May 4 no later than 5pm.

RCC staff will be out Dec 21 - Jan 3 🎄

We are excited to announce that ITS is investing in the Sliger Data-center.  As of now, the project is scheduled to complete in mid-to-late 2021.

As of December 15, 2020, XPRA will no longer be available to use on the Spear or HPC clusters. Open OnDemand is replacing it.

VPN changes: All RCC guest account users will need to obtain guest FSUIDs.  This change was triggered by the recent requirement of using two-factor authentication using DUO on all FSU VPN profiles.

We have completed our August maintenance downtime, and we appreciate everybody's patience while our systems were unavailable. During the maintenance, we accomplished critical upgrades to our HPC, storage systems, power, and networking infrastructures.

What does "pre-production" mean?  It means the system is stable and deployed, but we haven't published documentation information on our website yet.  We are are also still seeking feedback about both the usefulness and stability of the tool.