Reminder: ARC maintenance next week, Cascades+Dragonstooth Decommission

[Advanced Research Computing]

Hello All,

This is a quick reminder of next week's maintenance outage and the decommissioning of the Cascades and Dragonstooth clusters.

Maintenance Outage: 
All ARC systems will be offline and inaccessible January 17-19th, 2023 (first week of classes in Spring 2023 semester) for regular maintenance. Jobs which cannot complete before the start of the maintenance period will be held in queue during the maintenance and scheduling will resume immediate after the outage is completed.

Cascades and Dragonstooth Decommission:
The Cascades and Dragonstooth clusters have now run beyond their intended lifecycle and will be removed from service during the January maintenance. The login nodes will remain accessible for a short period of time after the maintenance to coordinate any final data transfers needed from the attached storage targets. See the link above for more details and some instructions. 

Getting help with ARC:
- Documentation site: https://docs.arc.vt.edu 
- Office Hours: https://arc.vt.edu/office-hours
- Submit a help request via 4HELP (mention ARC for fastest routing)

Best regards,

Advanced Research Computing