It is time for our annual operating system (OS) upgrade for our two clusters, Cannon and FASSE. Unlike previous years we have separated the upgrade from our annual power outage. This was to make it…| FAS Research Computing
The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled. This year’s power downtime will take place on Tuesday June 3, 2025. Monday June 2nd – Power-down beg…| FAS Research Computing
FAS Research Computing will be moving floors in our Boston data center in early 2025. This will require at least two downtimes to accomplish. The first phase will be completed Jan 12-13, 2025. Phas…| FAS Research Computing
FAS Research Computing will be moving floors in our Boston data center in early 2025. This will require at least two downtimes to accomplish. The most impactful will be the first move of our Boston…| FAS Research Computing
POWERUP COMPLETE 6:20PM See Status Page The yearly power downtime at our Holyoke data center, MGHPCC, has been scheduled. This year the power outage will take place on a Wednesday/Thursday …| FAS Research Computing
Summary FASRC is adding 216 Intel Sapphire Rapids nodes with 1TB of RAM each, 4 Intel Sapphire Rapids nodes with 2TB of RAM each and 144 A100 80GB GPUs to the Cannon cluster. The Sapphire Rapids co…| FAS Research Computing
DOWNTIME COMPLETE The annual multi-day power downtime at MGHPCC ( is complete (with exceptions noted below). Normal service resumes today (Friday June 9th) at 9am. As noted in previous communicatio…| FAS Research Computing