[Research] Machine Room Shutdown Friday

[Michael J. Baysek]

Correction to following statement:
 >

After Friday @ 11:30 AM, if you start a job, remember to use LOP1, LOR1, 
  or LOR2.  Any jobs running *on other machines* at 9:30 PM will be 
terminated when I shut down the rest of the machines.
 >


Michael J. Baysek wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I have updated information about tomorrow's outages.
> 
> At Friday @ 10:00 AM I will be shutting down LOP1, LOR1, LOR2 and 
> relocating them out of the machine room.  I have to setup a VPN and 
> change the static NAT on the firewall.  The machines should be available 
> no later than 11:30.
> 
> After Friday @ 11:30 AM, if you start a job, remember to use LOP1, LOR1, 
> or LOR2.  Any jobs running at 9:30 PM will be terminated when I shut 
> down the rest of the machines.
> 
> Through the weekend, be sure to check the machine status page to find 
> out what machines are available.  If a machine shows no statistics under 
> it's name, it is not available.
> 
> By Monday everything should be back to normal.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> Michael J. Baysek wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> As some of you may know, SCS is shutting down non-essential hardware 
>> in the machine room on Friday at 11:00 PM.
>>
>> They have agreed to keep our core infrastructure (web and file 
>> servers, etc) machines up, but we will be shutting down most of the 
>> LOP, LOQ, LOR, and LOS machines.
>>
>> I am trying to avoid having to shut down the machines (LOP1, LOS1) 
>> which have long running jobs, but I cannot promise it, so if you are 
>> planning on starting a long running job, please refrain until Monday.
>>
>> I will send more information as it becomes available.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 


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Michael J. Baysek
Systems Analyst
Carnegie Mellon University, Auton Lab
http://www.autonlab.org
mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu