Sep 15, 2026

UPDATE - 9/23/26 - Some of the home filesystem maintenance was postponed and is scheduled to be completed the week of 9/28/26. This blog will be updated when the maintenance is complete.

On Friday, September 18th, a minor configuration change will be applied to the home file system. No outage or performance impacts are anticipated. This blog will be updated once the configuration change is complete.

Sep 11, 2026

UPDATE: 10/7: Some other types of job requests were found to still trigger this preemption issue. We have implemented a workaround to ensure scavenger jobs are preempted properly while we work with our software vendor to address the underlying issue.

RESOLVED: 9/22: The scavenger queue is back online. We identified the job requests that trigger the preemption issue and implemented scheduler logic to account for them.

UPDATE: 9/18: We are working with our software vendor to resolve this issue.

We have temporarily paused running jobs through the scavenger queue while we investigate a potential issue with job preemption. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Oct 13, 2026

ICER/HPCC Access and MSU Password Reset Information

The University is requiring a password reset for all accounts accessing MSU systems. If you are having issues accessing ICER/HPCC when using a password to authenticate and have not changed it recently, you will need to reset your password by visiting https://auth.msu.edu and following the procedure presented for your NetID. For those users with an FPID account, if you have issues resetting your password through https://auth.msu.edu, you may need to reactivate your FPID using your PIN, which will reset your password. The MSU IT password management help page is here: https://netid.msu.edu/password/index.html, they would be able to assist with any password reset issues.

HPCC Staff

Sep 30, 2026

Following the power outage, ICER is aware of some users seeing IO errors when accessing some files on the research filesystem. We are actively working with our storage vendor to resolve these errors, and will provide an update as soon as we are able.