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The working group have reviewed the list of existing national projects and decided which machine(s) each project should be migrated to, based on computational characteristics and software needs provided in applications.
On this date, an e-mail will be sent out to project leaders with information about what machine(s) their projects will be migrated to.
What should you do?
We urge you as a project leader to do the following:
We will provide a quota on the new infrastructure to help with migrating. The amount will be approximately 20% of the existing grants.
What should you do?
Projects should begin moving data out of Stallo or Vilje.
Additionally we recommend running some test jobs on the new cluster to ensure similar results.
Contact the metacenter if you need help with getting set up on the new environment. (support@metacenter.no)
The quotas will be disabled on the old infrastructure, meaning you won't be able to run more jobs there.
What should you do?
Ensure that all data you need to keep is moved out of the old filesystem, and as a project leader make sure that your users have access to the new machine.
The login nodes to the old clusters will be disabled, meaning you won't be able to access the system any more.
If you still have data that needs to be moved, it is very important that you contact us on migration@metacenter.no as fast as possible.
All data on the old filesystems will be wiped.
Please note: The date "01.Jan. 0001" above acts as a placeholder. Once decided, each event in the timeline will be updated.
Additionally, all dates are estimates and might be postponed if necessary.
We have set up a dynamic calendar that you can subscribe to for faster and easier access to the dates in our timeline.
No - Projects that have local allocations from either site which does not have a national project number (E.g NN1234K), is not included in the migration process.
These projects will have to apply for a new national projects if they intend to continue using the national e-infrastructure.
How to apply for a new project
If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact your local IT-department.
This will depend on your computional characteristics, such as how parallell your jobs are, how much memory you require, if you can utilize GPU etc.
You will get more detailed information about this by e-mail in due time before migrating.
Project leaders are responsible for granting access to their active users on the resources they need to use.
This can be done via the PL GUI on metacenter.no - please refer to the instructions for managing users.
New users should apply for access as normal.
All projects are granted 1 TiB of project storage as a default on the new machine they get an allocation on.
If your project require more than this, please read the documentation for storage areas for an overview of the different directories and their purposes.
Please contact sigma2@uninett.no if you need an increased project quota and inform about which machine, how much in total you need and a brief explanation.
Note: projects that require more than 10 TiB need to apply for an allocation on NIRD.
Data that is left on the filesystems once the login nodes are closed may be permanently deleted. This applies to data from all directories.
The action is irreversible.
Please visit the documentation pages on how to transfer files.
If you need assistance, please contact the technical team on migration@metacenter.no
Still have questions about the migration or need help?
Please contact us by e-mail on migration@metacenter.no
Do you think some information is missing from these pages or have feedback in general?
We would very much like to hear from you, let us know at sigma2@uninett.no
