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UPDATE GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We ran into some delays while attempting to clean up VM snapshots, the externally accessible instance, https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov should resume service shortly after 13:00 CST, however the internally accessible instance https://gitlab.cels.anl.gov may take a while longer while maintenance continues. We will send a follow-up all-clear email when both services are once again working as expected. – …

STARTING: GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Beginning work to update our GitLab services at https://gitlab.cels.anl.gov and https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov Services will be disrupted during this maintenance window. Service is expected to be restored by 13:00 CST and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems

Maintenance window for GitLab service 2019-01-09 12:00 CST

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2019-01-09 at 12:00 CST in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 2019-01-09 13:00 CST, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue …

Update: Some services impacted by data center cooling issue.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We believe we’ve restored all CELS general compute services. For other issues (LCRC, ALCF, etc.) stay tuned to the respective user notification lists for updates. Happy Friday! — Craig On Dec 14, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Stacey, Craig <stace> wrote: Between 2 and 3 am, the lab’s central chilled water plant had a failure. The …

MCS Environment compute nodes

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The following compute nodes have been added to the existing MCS compute environment. compute002.mcs.anl.gov compute003.mcs.anl.gov 2X Intel Xeon Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz 192GB DDR4 2666 MHz Memory (12x16GB Modules) 1Gbit ethernet connected Ubuntu 14.04 compute004.mcs.anl.gov compute005.mcs.anl.gov 2X Intel Xeon Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz 192GB DDR4 2666 MHz Memory (12x16GB Modules) 1Gbit ethernet connected …

Some services impacted by data center cooling issue.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Between 2 and 3 am, the lab’s central chilled water plant had a failure. The temperatures in the 240 data center spiked highly and a number of systems were affected by the heat. Cooling was restored by 4:30, but we’ve been trying to get the affected services online. You may notice some problems reaching some …

COMPLETED GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Maintenance of our GitLab services has been completed. Please let us know if you encounter any issues by emailing [email protected] – CELS Systems

STARTING: GitLab maintenance window

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Beginning work to update our GitLab services at https://gitlab.cels.anl.gov and https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov Services will be disrupted during this maintenance window. Service is expected to be restored by 13:00 CST and may be available sooner than that. We will send a followup email upon completion of the work. – CELS Systems

Maintenance window for GitLab services 2018-12-04 12:00 CST

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2018-12-04 at 12:00 CST in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 2018-12-04 13:00 CST, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses undue …

Why your mail forwarding might be broken, and you may not even know it.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, again. Time for another story in the vein of Technology is Ruining Everything and Why Can’t Things Just Be the Way They Were and Get These Kids Off My Lawn. Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there. Let’s start again. If you forward your mail to another site (like Gmail, Yahoo …

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