Fram decommissioning information

Published: 2025-10-27

The Fram supercomputer is scheduled for decommissioning on 4 December 2025 as part of the national e-infrastructure upgrade.

All active projects with a quota only on Fram, and users are being migrated to the new national supercomputer, Olivia. This guide provides the official timeline, data migration plan, and the actions you need to take to ensure your research continues with minimal disruption.

Critical Timeline

Date/Time

Event

Impact on Your Work

Friday, 21 Nov 2025

Fram Data Freeze

/cluster/project and $HOME directories will become read-only. You can only write data to the /cluster/work area.

Thursday, 4 Dec 2025
(11:00 CEST)

System Shutdown

All compute nodes will be reserved to finish running jobs. Fram will then be powered down and taken offline.

Note: Short-notice downtimes may be necessary. Please monitor opslog.sigma2.no for service announcements.

Data Migration

To facilitate the transition and ensure data integrity, we will maintain a copy of your Fram data from /cluster/projects and $HOME directories on NIRD.

What is copied on NIRD?

  • Projects: Data under /cluster/projects/ for projects with an active compute quota since allocation period 2024.2.

  • Home Directories: All users’ $HOME folders.

  • Shared Areas: Specific /cluster/shared areas. (Affected users have been contacted directly).

How to access your copy of Fram data

The copy of Fram data is available as read-only in the following locations:

  • On Fram (please use this to check integrity):

    • Projects: /cluster/backup/hpc/fram

    • $HOME: /cluster/backup/home

  • On Olivia (this will be available from 31 October 2025):

    • Projects: /nird/backup/hpc/fram/projects

    • $HOME: /nird/backup/fram/home

Note

IMPORTANT: Copy of your Fram data on NIRD is temporary. The data in the locations mentioned above will be retained until 31 March 2026. If you have data on Fram that you wish to keep permanently, it is your responsibility to copy any data you wish to retain from this temporary location to an alternative, permanent storage solution. Please note that NIRD is an available option for long-term data storage, and you are encouraged to migrate your Fram data to your NIRD project (either on Data Lake or Data Peak). If you have questions, please contact us via contact@sigma2.no.

Your New Compute Resource: Olivia

Access and Quota

Your compute quota from Fram has been administratively duplicated to Olivia. If you had access to Fram, you have access to Olivia now.

You can log in immediately:

ssh <username>@olivia.sigma2.no