The UVA HPC systems, Afton/Rivanna, will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 beginning at 6 am.
All systems are expected to return to service by Wednesday, May 28 at 6 am.
How should I prepare and what to expect on May 27, 2025?
You may continue submitting jobs to the HPC system until the maintenance period begins. However, if the system determines your job won’t finish in time, it will not start until the system is back online. The upcoming maintenance will include upgrades to the HPC image (upgrading to Rocky 8.10), the HPC scheduler (Slurm 24.11), the NVIDIA driver and Open OnDemand. To complete these tasks, all compute nodes and login nodes - including the Open OnDemand and FastX portals – will need to be taken offline. However, Research Project Storage and Research Standard Storage will remain accessible via SMB and NFS mounts. Additionally, the UVA Standard Security Storage Data Transfer Node (DTN) will stay operational throughout the maintenance period.
If you have any questions about the upcoming HPC system maintenance, you may contact our user services team.
IMPORTANT MAINTENANCE NOTES
System upgrades
- Operating system: Rocky 8.10
- Slurm: 24.11.3
- NVIDIA driver: 570.124.06 (CUDA 12.8)
- Open OnDemand: 4.0
Modules
The software stack is migrated from /sfs/applications to /sfs/gpfs/tardis/applications and the /apps symbolic link is updated accordingly. Unless the full path is required, users should simply use /apps.
Default version changes include:
- cuda/12.4.1 → 12.8.0
- miniforge/24.3.0-py3.11 → 24.11.3-py3.12
- nvhpc/24.5 → 25.3
- R/4.4.1 → 4.5.0
(The original defaults are not removed.)
| Module |
Remove |
Replace with |
| afni |
23.1.10 |
25.0.12 |
| bracken |
2.9 |
3.1 |
| cellranger |
8.0.0 |
9.0.1 |
| code-server |
4.92.2 |
4.99.1 |
| cmake |
3.23.3, 3.24.3 |
3.28.1, 4.0.0 |
| cuda |
10.2.89, 11.8.0 |
12.8.0 |
| cudnn |
8.2.4.15, 8.9.7 |
8.9.4.25, 9.8.0-CUDA-12.8.0 |
| cutadapt |
3.4 |
4.9 |
| fastqc |
0.11.5 |
0.12.1 |
| fmriprep |
23.1.4 |
25.0.0 |
| fsl |
6.0.7.6 |
6.0.7.17 |
| gcc |
13.3.0 |
14.2.0 |
| go |
1.21.4 |
1.23.6 |
| intel |
2024.0 |
2025.0 |
| jcuda |
11.4.1 |
- |
| jupyterlab |
3.6.3-py3.11 |
4.4.1-py3.12 |
| kraken2 |
2.1.3 |
2.1.5 |
| mathematica |
11.2 |
14.2 |
| matlab |
R2022b |
R2024b |
| multiqc |
1.14 |
1.27.1 |
| nextflow |
23.04.1 |
24.10.5 |
| openmpi |
4.1.4-nofabric[-withoutverbs] |
4.1.4 |
| openmpi |
4.1.5-intel |
4.1.5 |
| perl |
5.36.0 |
5.40.2 |
| pytorch |
1.12.0, 2.0.1 |
2.4.0, 2.7.0 |
| ruby |
3.1.2 |
3.4.3 |
| smrtlink |
13.1.0.221970 |
25.2.0 |
| spaceranger |
3.1.1 |
3.1.3 |
| sumo |
1.14.1 |
1.22.0 |
| texlive |
2023 |
2025 |
| tmux |
2.5 |
3.4 |
| tree |
1.8.0 |
2.2.1 |
| trimgalore |
0.6.4 |
0.6.10 |
