Category: Maintenance & Changes

We are excited to announce a major upgrade of the Compute2 Slurm Cluster, bringing significant improvements in security, performance, reliability, and platform capabilities. 💡 What’s new: ❗️Impact: Maintenance window: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT Please save your work and plan job submissions accordingly. All other services will be unimpacted. 📢 Actions required: After the upgrade, users […]

The cost model for GitHub Copilot is changing effective July 1, 2026. This change is in response to Copilot’s recent transition to a metered use model and enables better resource management through usage and budgetary controls. What’s changing: Moving forward, access to Copilot will no longer be provisioned under the Washington University in St Louis enterprise configuration. Action required Submit […]

RIS will be performing scheduled system maintenance beginning at 9:00 AM CST on March 5. ❓ Why: IBM GPFS will be upgraded to 5.2.3.5. These updates will fix existing issues, making our storage system faster, safer, and more reliable. During this maintenance window, the following services will be affected: ❗️Impacted Services Maintenacne Window Impact Storage1 9:00 AM […]

On February 16, we will implement a Secure Shell (SSH) policy change only on compute1-client* and c2-login-* nodes. ❗️Impact: Scientific Compute ▸ C1 & C2 ▸ SSHUnder the new policy, all RIS compute login nodes will be configured to automatically close any user session that has been inactive for 7 consecutive days. If your session is affected, you […]

Next week, on February 18 and 19 at 9:00 AM CST, the Tape Library, which serves the Archive storage tier and tape backup system, will undergo yearly maintenance. Recalling data from the Archive and backup tape will be unavailable during the scheduled maintenance. Active storage and self-service snapshots will be available during this time with […]

On June 14 and 17 – 20, RIS performed maintenance on our Data Storage and Scientific Compute platforms. Updates: 400+ servers updated with the following

From June 17 through June 24, RIS will perform maintenance to our Data Storage and Scientific Compute Platforms. During the maintenance, RIS Storage and Scientific Compute Platforms WILL NOT be available. Access to our platforms is subject to change during the maintenance window. Our storage software IBM GPFS, will be upgraded to 5 .1 .9 .3. These updates will fix […]