Mandatory NVIDIA driver update

Scheduled for May 6, 08:00 - 20:00 PDT

Scheduled

NVIDIA has notified users of a severity High vulnerability in their GPU drivers for Linux which could allow an unprivileged user to escalate permissions (https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5630). Due to UCOP IS-3 policy, we are required to patch affected systems as soon as possible.

As a result, we will be patching NVIDIA drivers on all HPC GPU systems and rebooting them starting at 8:00 a.m. on May 6th, 2025. Jobs that are currently utilizing HPC GPUs will be killed with a reboot. New jobs will be unavailable to start until patching is complete. We expect the maintenance to last until 6:00 p.m. on the same day.

Please email hpc-help@ucdavis with any questions.

Posted Apr 25, 2025 - 16:04 PDT

This scheduled maintenance affects: GPU Nodes.