Hansen
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Hansen Cluster to be Decommissioned
Hansen has reached the end of its 5 year lifespan and will be decommissioned on October 1, 2016. This timeline coincides with the five-year warranty of the machine. Our current timeline for Hansen's retirement is: September 1, 2016: Jobs that run pa...
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FINAL WARNING: Hansen will be decommissioned tomorrow night. After tomorrow, data in /scratch/hansen WILL NOT BE RETRIEVABLE from any system. Please follow the instructions below to ensure any valuable files are migrated elsewhere. Original Message:...
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Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...
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Software stack changes and upgrades
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack on the clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel compiler and associ...
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Degraded performance of several systems
We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...
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The underlying storage has been fixed, and all these clusters have been returned to normal operations as of 10:00pm EDT. As of Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 at 4:10pm EDT, Conte, Hansen, Hathi, and Radon are unavailable due to a loss of Isilon home direct...
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An issue was discovered shortly after Conte, Hansen, Hathi, and Radon were brought back online with the /group path on several front-ends and nodes. Any scripts or jobs that rely on the /group path may have had issues immediately following return to...
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The Isilon filesystem was restored to normal service and all affected clusters had it remounted as quickly as was sustainable by the filesystem. This process was completed by Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 at 12:15am EDT. All clusters other than Conte (...
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Environment Modules System Upgrade
On Monday, May 9, 2016 the environment module system on Carter, Conte, Hansen, and Hathi will be upgraded to Lmod, bringing all compute clusters up to the same environment modules system. This new system has been in use on the Rice and Snyder cluster...
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New web-based quota monitoring tool
A new web-based quota monitoring tool is available to all Research Cluster and Data Depot users. This tool is a web equivalent of the myquota tool on the clusters. The tool allows you to monitor your quota usage just like myquota, but it also allows...
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Unscheduled Scheduling Outage on Hansen
Job scheduling on Hansen has returned to normal. This concludes the outage. Original Message: Hansen is not currently scheduling any new jobs. A filesystem used for a specific project serving Hansen became unavailable on Hansen around 5:00am. This...
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Standby queues paused on Hansen Cluster
Update As of 5:20pm the standby and standby-c queues have been started and their jobs are being scheduled for execution. The standby queues on Hansen have been paused temporarily in order to address a slow scheduling issue. We expect to have them ba...
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ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing staged patching and reboots of all of ECN's RedHat Linux workstations and servers to protect against a serious vulnerability in glibc system library. A significant number of ECN services will be...
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Unscheduled Outage in Math Data Center
Most of the impact of this turned out to be to the Depot storage system, which has now been restored to normal operations. All the other affected systems are showing a return to normal operations now. Original Message: As of Thursday, February 4th,...
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Unscheduled Home Filesystem Outage
As of 12:46, December 2, the home filesystem serving Conte, Hammer, Hansen, Hathi, Peregrine1, Radon, Rice, and Snyder was restored to normal operation. All queues have been re-enabled. As of Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 12:00pm EST, Conte, Hamm...
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Cluster Maintenance - Hansen/Peregrine1
Update: September 22, 2015 1pm The work affecting Hansen and Peregrine1 scratch filesystems has been completed and the clusters are back in full production. Original The Hansen and Peregrine1 cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, Septembe...
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Storage and Network Upgrades for Carter Cluster
ITaP is pleased to announce several upgrades to the Carter cluster to better enable data-intensive science. Network To relieve potential bottlenecks on IP network traffic, Carter will receive an upgrade to its Infiniband-to-IP gateway. This gateway t...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...
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Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue with the cluster. Maintenance on Snyder, Rossmann, Hansen, Hammer, and Conte has been completed and...