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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14pt"><b>Planned Maintenance Tuesday, January 18, 2022</b></span></div>
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during the upgrade. During the upgrade there will be periods where the Slurm commands and web pages are unresponsive. </span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">On the LQCD AMD 21g cluster, ROCm 4.5.2 and system updates will be installed. </span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">work file servers for the experimental halls and EIC will experience a brief interruption while patches are installed. </span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Open Science Grid nodes will be updated and rebooted</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14pt"><b>Reminder: Upcoming Retirement of Auger and swif version 1</b></span></div>
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on March 1</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px; font-variant-ligatures:none!important; font-size:8.5pt; line-height:18.3458px; font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px; vertical-align:super; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">st</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px; font-variant-ligatures:none!important; font-size:11pt; line-height:18.3458px; font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">,
2022 t</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">he Aug</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">e</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">r
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1 </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">commands will </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">no longer be available. </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Th</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">ey </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">have
been</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> superseded by the</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span><span style="margin:0px; background-position:left bottom; background-repeat:repeat-x; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Slurm</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> workload
manager and by</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> and </span><span style="margin:0px; background-position:left bottom; background-repeat:repeat-x; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">swif</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">version
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 18.3458px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Slurm</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">includes
GPU and MPI support, features absent in Auger. Detailed </span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_slurm_batch" title=" https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_slurm_batch"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Documentation
about Slurm at JLab</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> is available. </span></span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 18.3458px; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Swif2
is built on top of</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Slurm</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">and
supports running workflows with file staging, both locally and at remote sites. See the </span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="https://scicomp.jlab.org/swif2.html" title="https://scicomp.jlab.org/swif2.html"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">SWIF2
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more information on the upcoming change and the changes to the job submission, please see the
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further questions on</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Slurm</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">,
swif2, or the schedule,</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px; font-variant-ligatures:none!important; font-size:11pt; line-height:18.3458px; font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> please
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Now</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> or email helpdesk@jlab.org</span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div>
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February 8</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px; font-variant-ligatures:none!important; font-weight:bold; font-size:8.5pt; line-height:18.3458px; font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px; vertical-align:super; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">th</span></span><span lang="en-US" style="margin:0px; font-variant-ligatures:none!important; font-size:11pt; line-height:18.3458px; font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">,
jobs submitted using Auger or</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">swif1</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">will
have reduced scheduling capacity to encourage transition to</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">S</span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">lurm</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">and
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