Compute server upgrades: compute001 9AM tomorrow

We pushed back a bit on the schedule previously announced. We’ve got compute001 slated for 9AM tomorrow, Wednesday 10/5, and next week we’ll finish off with stomp.
As before, during each rebuild, the machine will be unavailable for some portion of that day. We’ll announce the shutdown on the machine itself to all logged-in users 30 minutes prior to shutdown. After the machine is rebuilt, you’ll need to recreate any crontabs you had in place. Also note /sandbox is not backed up and data will be lost – never keep data in /sandbox that can’t be easily reproduced.
If you notice software packages missing or other oddities, please report them to [email protected].
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Craig
From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Craig Stacey <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 8:58 AM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Systems Announce] Compute server upgrades continue
We’re pushing through on updating the remaining 64 bit compute nodes to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. Here’s the schedule:
This week (through Sep 9)
thwomp.mcs.anl.gov
vanquish.mcs.anl.gov
Next week (Sep 12-16)
trounce.mcs.anl.gov
churn.mcs.anl.gov
Week 3 (Sep 19-23)
crush.mcs.anl.gov
crank.mcs.anl.gov
grind.mcs.anl.gov
Week 4 (Sep 26-30)
compute001.mcs.anl.gov
steamroller.mcs.anl.gov
Week 5 (Oct 3-7)
stomp.mcs.anl.gov
During each rebuild, the machine will be unavailable for some portion of that day. We’ll announce the shutdown on the machine itself to all logged-in users 30 minutes prior to shutdown. After the machine is rebuilt, you’ll need to recreate any crontabs you had in place. Also note /sandbox is not backed up and data will be lost – never keep data in /sandbox that can’t be easily reproduced.
If you notice software packages missing or other oddities, please report them to [email protected].
We’ll start this week’s batch of machines tomorrow (Wednesday, September 7).
Let us know if this presents any problems.