[auton-users] Planned Power Outage in Newell Simon Hall - 10/18

[predragp at andrew.cmu.edu]

Dear Autonians,

I will be shutting down you desktops starting 9:30 PM EST
if you have not already done so to accommodate for
planned power outrage. I apologize for the late notice.
I was under impression that you have received the help
desk message which might not be the case.

I am not planning to take any servers down. Hopefully
our PSUs will be able to keep them alive for 60 minutes.
If you notice anything strange tomorrow morning please
report.

Most Kind Regards,
Predrag




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: REMINDER: Planned Power Outage in Wean Hall, Newell Simon Hall,
Hamburg Hall, and Smith Hall - 10/18
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:37:25 -0400
From: Help Desk <help+ at cs.cmu.edu>
To: Help Desk <Help at cs.cmu.edu>

Date: Friday, October 18, 2013
Time: 5:00 AM

Services Affected: Desktop machines in Hamburg Hall, Smith Hall, Newell
Simon Hall, and Wean Hall and some computer clusters in the Wean Hall
machine room.

Details:
Facilities Management Services continues planning electrical shutdowns
necessary for balancing the power loads between circuits across main campus.

The transfers are scheduled for Friday, October 18, mid semester break and
no classes.

Wean Hall                                    5:00-6:00 AM

Newell Simon Hall                            6:15-7:00 AM

Hamburg and Smith Halls                      7:00-7:30 AM


It is recommended that you shut down any desktop machines in Hamburg, Smith,
Newell Simon and Wean Halls prior to this outage as a precaution.

At 5:00 AM Friday, October 18 the SCS machine room in Wean Hall will lose
power for 60 minutes. All servers located there have UPS backup and should
not be affected unless the power outage lasts longer than planned or if a
UPS experiences a failure. SCS Computing Facilities staff will be present in
the machine room to monitor the situation and react if necessary.

Some SCS Compute Clusters contain compute nodes that are not on UPS power,
so these nodes will power off. Cluster owners will be contacted separately.

Servers located in the Gates-Hillman data center, where most of the core
servers for SCS Computing Facilities services reside, will not be affected.

There should be no interruption of SCS network connectivity, email services,
AFS or printing.

Please contact the SCS Help Desk at x8-4231 or send mail to help+ at cs.cmu.edu
with any questions or concerns regarding this power outage.

Thank you for your attention,

SCS Help Desk