5 Jul, 2022: Hardware Refresh Plan

Please be advised of the following M3 hardware refresh schedule. These servers are now coming into end-of-life and will be retired.

While this will result in a reduction of total CPU and GPU capacity, retiring these servers is necessary to make room for new and faster compute nodes. This round of procurement for new hardware is expected to be provisioned to include new remote desktop servers to replace those being decommissioned. In the interim, more desktops will be made available from our existing pool of GPUs. Note that only the Strudel Beta list of desktops will be updated to reflect the change in desktop options.

Compute Nodes	Capability	To be retired by
m3f[000-031]	NVIDIA K1 GPU desktops	21 Jun 2022
m3c[000-013]	NVIDIA K80 GPU desktops	18 Jul 2022
m3e000	NVIDIA K80 GPU
m3h005	NVIDIA P100 GPU desktop
m3h[006-008]	NVIDIA P100 GPUs	Late 2022 Exact date TBC

We will be enabling the appropriate mechanisms (e.g., SLURM reservation) to ensure that these nodes will be idle of running jobs prior to their retirement. Please check your job scripts to ensure they do not specify these nodes using --nodelist.