Stokes and Newton will be taken down per our bi-annual routine maintenance cycle during mid-May. Specifically, the clusters will be unavailable from Thursday, May 9 through Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

The primary objectives during this downtime is to integrate a new user and management nodes on Newton, prepare our old storage server to be final decommissioning, refresh Ethernet switches on the Stokes cluster, perform maintenance on the GPU cluster (Newton), update the SLURM job scheduler throughout both clusters, and perform other tasks we cannot do while the system is operational.

Recall that we routinely bring the system down twice a year, once in late Fall and once in late Spring. We will keep the users notified in advance of such downtimes, but we recommend you build such expectations into your workflow. Though we anticipate no data loss during this time, it's never a bad idea to backup your materials. So we suggest you use this opportunity to copy salient data and code off of Stokes and Newton prior to the downtime