Effective immediately, the ICCP program has updated its server retention policy. Servers purchased for the cluster may now remain in operation for up to 7 years, regardless of warranty status.
Key Points
All new server purchases still require a minimum 5-year warranty at the time of acquisition.
While we strongly encourage extending warranties from 5 to 7 years, servers will no longer be removed from the cluster solely due to expired warranties, provided they are less than 7 years old.
Support for Out-of-Warranty Servers
Servers operating without warranty coverage will receive best-effort support only and will be treated as lower priority compared to servers with active warranty coverage.
Any parts or components needed for repairs of out-of-warranty servers are the full financial responsibility of the investor who purchased the nodes. The ICCP program will determine whether replacement parts are still available and whether the repair effort would constitute an undue burden on technical staff. The program reserves the right to decline repairs that are deemed impractical, excessively time-consuming, or
incompatible with current infrastructure standards.
Out-of-warranty servers that experience repeated failures, require excessive maintenance, or negatively impact cluster stability may be subject to early removal at the discretion of ICCP program management.
Decommissioning
Once servers reach the 7-year mark, standard decommissioning policies apply. At that time, you may either reclaim the hardware or donate it to the local HTCondor resource.