[auton-users] LOP*, LOQ*, LOR* DOWNTIME THIS WEEKEND

[Michael J. Baysek]

I have heard from no one regarding any critical jobs that need to be run 
this weekend.

Therefore, THIS WEEKEND, I will bring down all of the following machines 
in order to qualify them for the CPU upgrade. 

LOP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
LOQ 1, 2, 3
LOR 1

The outage will not affect any other machines, including neill* 
machines, website, WEBCVS/SVN or any lab infrastructure.  CVS will not 
be accessible to most of you during the downtime, since most of you 
tunnel through LOP1.  Your home directories will still be accessible on 
your Linux desktops, or by your mapped drives in Windows if you are set 
up for access this way.

At this point, I do not feel pressed to commit to a precise time that 
this will happen, but expect that it will be sometime between 6am 
Saturday and 9am Monday.  I will send an email to all of you when the 
process is complete.  The process should take less than 2 hours.

Any jobs that are running when I bring the system down will be killed 
when I bring the machines down.  Feel free to run whatever you want 
between now and then, but know that if it isn't finished when I do the 
shutdown, you'll have to start it again Monday.

There will be another outage for the machines coming up when I install 
the new CPU's.  I will, of course, keep you all informed.


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Michael J. Baysek, Systems Analyst
Carnegie Mellon University - Auton Lab
www.cmu.edu - www.autonlab.org
412-268-8939