Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023 (7:30-9:30) Who is affected: All users of the CS Department Beowulf high performance computing cluster, known as ionic. What is happening: CS Staff will upgrade the cluster management and job scheduling system Slurm and its database. No reboot will be necessary; thus, we expect to finish the upgrade earlier than …
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Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 (07:30-10:30) Who is affected: All users of CS Department storage systems, including project spaces, home directories, and web spaces. What is happening: The central file storage cluster will be rebooted a few times during this window in order to facilitate physical upgrades. During the reboots, file services will be interrupted, …
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Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (08:00-10:00) Who is affected: All users of the CS Department project web space service. What is happening: CS Staff will upgrade the web project servers to the latest Springdale 9 distribution. PHP on this server will be upgraded from version 8.0.13 to 8.1.14, and Phusion Passenger, the system which allows …
CS System Downtime – Project Web Server, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, 08:00-10:00 Read More »
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (05:00-17:00) Who is affected: All users of the CS Department Beowulf high performance computing cluster, known as ionic. What is happening: CS Staff will upgrade the ionic cluster to the latest Springdale 9 distribution. In addition, cluster management and job scheduling system slurm and its database will be upgraded. SPECIAL …
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Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (08:00-10:00) Who is affected: All users of the CS Staff-managed public login systems, including the cycles, courselab, and armlab systems. What is happening: CS Staff will upgrade the user-accessible servers in our infrastructure, including cycles, courselab, and armlab. The systems will be upgraded to the latest Springdale 9 distribution for …
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Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 (08:15-10:15) Who is affected: Users of CS Department Disk Storage Facilities, including home directories, project spaces, and web servers. What is happening: During this window, the CS Department’s primary storage cluster will have its network relocated and upgraded. NO OUTAGE is expected, but some users may experience brief pauses in …
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OIT had an outage last night at the HPCRC. We are working this morning to bring servers back online. Email is back online. 5/28/2023 8:45AM Web servers are back online 5/28/2023 9:00AM
Good morning. You may notice that CS systems have had a significant outage overnight. This was due to major power problems at the campus data center facility at Forrestal. All of our systems in the HPCRC were unexpectedly powered off and suffered various other power effects throughout the evening and night, and some did not …
[downtime] Major Outage – Unplanned Power Failure in HPCRC Read More »
Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 (08:00-10:00) Who is affected: All users of CS Department computing facilities and services, including cycles, ionic, web services, email, DNS, and wired networking. What is happening: During this window, the core switch handling CS Department network traffic at the HPCRC will be replaced. The actual outage time for any particular …
[downtime] CS Network Downtime, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 08:00-10:00 Read More »
The email server upgrade scheduled for this morning has run into unexpected issues. As a result, email service is not working properly. We are working to correct the situation as quickly as possible, and will update here as new information becomes available. Update 08:57 – We continue to work to recover the mail systems, but …