[auton-users] Auton Compute System Downtime Required: TUE Oct 12 04:00 - 08:00 AM

[Michael J. Baysek]

  Hi Lab,

My apologies.  The maintenance will occur TUESDAY at 04:00 - 08:00, not
Monday, as mentioned previously.  All other details remain the same.

Happy Weekend -

Mike

On 10/8/10 1:37 PM, Michael J. Baysek wrote:
> Hi Lab.
>
> Monday, Oct 11, from 04:00 to 08:00 AM the compute system will be
> unavailable as I perform maintenance outlined below.
>
> - Re-installation of primary file server (after repairs were made while
>   it was off-line)
>
> - Re-installation of LOT2 compute node.
>
> - Installation of new 48 core compute node, LOU1, time permitting.
>
> How this will affect you:
>
> - You will be unable to log in to any compute nodes during this time.
>
> - CVS, Subversion, and MySQL on LYRE will not be available.
>
> - Even though I am switching out the actual file server machine, the 
> system
>   is configured in such a way that you will not lose any jobs in progress
>   on the compute system.  Any I/O will just hang, until the primary
>   server comes online.  Then, the I/O will continue as if nothing ever
>   happened.  You won't have to restart any processes... except in the
>   case of unanticipated problems, which... are not anticipated, of
>   course.  :)
>
>