To all chip users,
The chip cluster will be brought offline for a few hours Thursday Dec 18 starting at 1800ET. This brief downtime is to patch our cluster management head-nodes to avoid significant memory management issues that have been reported by our vendor.
We understand that this downtime will be disruptive, but the Research Computing Team will endeavor to complete this patch quickly and alert the user base to resumed operations.
As always, remember to submit any issues you have here: https://rtforms.umbc.edu/rt_authenticated/doit/DoIT-support.php?auto=Research%20Computing
and check out our documentation here: https://umbc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/faq/pages/1082589207/UMBC+HPCF+-+chip
Roy Prouty
Asst Director for Research Computing