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## News
* **2024-05-08** [Maintenance at `Alpha Centauri` - User action required!](jobs_and_resources/alpha_centauri.md#recabling-maintenance)
* **2024-07-08 --2024-07-12** All HPC systems and services will be unvailable due to a maintenance
at the cooling infrastructure
* **2024-02-05** [New Support Form: HPC Café Questions & Answers](support/support.md#open-qa-sessions)
([to the Event](https://tu-dresden.de/zih/qa-sessions-nhr-at-tud))
* **2024-02-05** [New JupyterHub now available](access/jupyterhub.md)
## Training and Courses
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The hardware specification is documented on the page
[HPC Resources](hardware_overview.md#alpha-centauri).
## Recabling Maintenance
!!! warning "User Action Required"
Please read the following information carefully and follow the provided instructions.
We are in the
[process of becoming `Alpha Centauri` a Stand-Alone Cluster](#becoming-a-stand-alone-cluster).
Planned now is the integration of the cluster into the InfiniBand infrastructure
of the new cluster [`Barnard`](barnard.md).
!!! hint "Maintenance Work"
On **June 4+5**, we will shut down and migrate `Alpha Centauri` to the Barnard InfiniBand
infrastructure.
As consequences,
* BeeGFS will no longer be available,
* all `Barnard` filesystems (`/home`, `/software`, `/data/horse`, `/data/walrus`) can be
used normally.
For your convenience, we already have started migrating your data from `/beegfs` to
`/data/horse/beegfs`. Starting with the downtime, we again synchronize these data.
!!! hint "User Action Required"
The less we have to synchronize the faster will be the overall process. So, please clean-up
as much as possible as soon as possible.
Important for your work is:
* Do not add terabytes of data to `/beegfs` if you cannot "consume" it before June 4.
* After the final successful data transfer to `/data/horse/beegfs`, you then have to
move it to the normal workspaces on `/data/horse`.
* Be prepared to adapt your workflows to the new paths.
What happens afterward:
* complete deletion of all user data in `/beegfs`
* complete recabling of the storage nodes (BeeGFS hardware)
* software and firmware updates
* set-up of a new WEKA filesystem for high I/O demands on the same hardware
In case of any question regarding this maintenance or required action, please do not hesitate to
contact the [HPC support team](../support/support.md).
## Becoming a Stand-Alone Cluster
The former HPC system Taurus is partly switched-off and partly split up into separate clusters
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### Filesystems
Your new `/home` directory (from `Barnard`) is also your `/home` on `Alpha Centauri`.
If you have not
[migrated your `/home` from Taurus to your **new** `/home` on Barnard](barnard.md#data-management-and-data-transfer)
, please do so as soon as possible!
!!! warning "Current limitations w.r.t. filesystems"
For now, `Alpha Centauri` will not be integrated in the InfiniBand fabric of Barnard. With this
comes a dire restriction: **the only work filesystems for Alpha Centauri** will be the `/beegfs`
filesystems. (`/scratch` and `/lustre/ssd` are not usable any longer.)
Please, prepare your
stage-in/stage-out workflows using our [datamovers](../data_transfer/datamover.md) to enable the
work with larger datasets that might be stored on Barnard’s new capacity filesystem
`/data/walrus`. The datamover commands are not yet running. Thus, you need to use them from
Barnard!
The new Lustre filesystems, namely `horse` and `walrus`, will be mounted as soon as `Alpha` is
recabled (planned for May 2024).
!!! warning "Current limitations w.r.t. workspace management"
Workspace management commands do not work for `beegfs` yet. (Use them from Taurus!)
Your new `/home` directory (from `Barnard`) is also your `/home` on `Alpha Centauri`. Since 5th July
2024, `Alpha Centauri` is fully integrated in the InfiniBand infrastructure of `Barnard`. With that,
all [filesystems](hardware_overview.md#storage-systems)
(`/home`, `/software`, `/data/horse`, `/data/walrus`) are available.
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