Article archive for December, 2008

Prolonged downtime for select servers

December 30th, 2008

We will be upgrading the operating system of some servers (VRDC3203, VRDC3201, the web servers) between Jan 13 and Jan 16, 2009. Other servers may be fully or partially unavailable during this time as well. Please contact us if you need access to the servers during this time.

SAS updated on all VRDC nodes

December 15th, 2008

We have applied the latest hotfixes on all VirtualRDC nodes.

Brief Wiki downtime for implementation of security patches

December 15th, 2008

The VRDCwiki will be briefly offline. Shouldn’t be long.

Downtime for security patches (VRDC ia64 nodes only)

December 4th, 2008

We will be applying security patches to the public ia64 nodes tonight. Sorry for the short notice. Expected downtime is no more than 30 minutes.

Papers from an IAB Workshop on Confidentiality

December 2nd, 2008

Multiple members of the NSF-ITR Confidentiality team presented at the IAB Workshop on Confidentiality in Nürnberg. Papers are available at http://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Events/SDC-Workshop.aspx