WHAT’S HAPPENING?
OIT Network Services will be upgrading the Coda Data Center firewall appliances. This will briefly disrupt connections to PACE, impacting login sessions, interactive jobs, and Open OnDemand sessions. Details on the maintenance are available on the OIT status page.
WHEN IS IT HAPPENING?
Saturday, February 25, 2023, 6:00 AM – 12:00 noon
WHY IS IT HAPPENING?
Required maintenance
WHO IS AFFECTED?
Any researcher or student with an active connection to PACE clusters (Phoenix, Hive, Buzzard, PACE-ICE, and COC-ICE) may lose their connection briefly during the maintenance window. Firebird will not be impacted.
This impacts ssh sessions and interactive jobs. Running batch jobs will not be impacted. Open OnDemand sessions that are disrupted may be resumed via the web interface once the network is restored if their walltime has not expired.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?
No action is required.
WHO SHOULD YOU CONTACT FOR QUESTIONS?
For questions, please contact PACE at pace-support@oit.gatech.edu.