Article archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Server downtime scheduled for VirtualRDC

August 30th, 2009

We will be doing routine hardware and OS maintenance on the evening of September 8, 2009. All servers will be inaccessible for some (varying) period of time. Please plan your work accordingly.

NSF01 next attempt at storage migration (updated)

August 19th, 2009

After having resolved contractual maintenance issues, the next attempt to migrate the NSF01 storage from the older storage array to the newer (supported) array has been tentatively scheduled. [More »]

We have been awarded an NSF grant to continue the VirtualRDC and create a Social Science Gateway (SSG) to TeraGrid

July 29th, 2009

John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber have been awarded NSF grant SES-0922005 to continue the VirtualRDC in its current form, as well as create a new Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid. [More »]

Success: NSF01 filesystem fully functional again.

July 16th, 2009

As of 2009-07-16, 14:21, /temporary/saswork1 is back online as a 2.9 terabyte filesystem and is available for regular use.

NSF01 maintenance, next attempt

July 16th, 2009

Maintenance of /temporary/saswork1 will continue today. Census IT are still
working to fully diagnose the problem. Work will continue this afternoon starting around 1pm.

NSF01 maintenance ongoing

July 15th, 2009

… to repair /temporary/saswork1. Scheduled for 7PM. “During this maintenance window, the server will be available;” but the directory will obviously be offline.

Update: did not happen.

NSF01 temp space maintenance postponed

July 15th, 2009

“Requires further research”… we’ll keep you posted.

NSF01 temporary filesystems… temporarily unavailable

July 15th, 2009

CSvD will complete work on restoring /temporary/saswork1 after last week’s disk failure. The filesystem will be unavailable for most of the day and should be back up and fully functional later this afternoon or by tomorrow morning. Successful completion will be notified to the NSF01 user mailing list.

Account creation paused until July 14, 2009

June 29th, 2009

The site administrator-cum-sysadmin is away until July 14, 2009. No accounts (for download: QWI, OnTheMap; for compute access) will be created during this time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Possible NSF01 reboot later today

June 26th, 2009

We have requested a reboot of NSF01 to attempt to resolve some I/O-related performance issues. The reboot should take place by the end of the day today, but may be delayed until Monday. There are currently no active jobs, so it should be minimally disruptive.