Power work in TCS has unexpectedly affected the servers hosted in TCS. We’ve restored power to the affected servers and disks and are in the process of recovering the machines. Will send an all-clear when this is complete. This affects the shared drives Y, Z, and linux fileservers. Any services not functioning as expected are …

A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2017-06-28 (Wednesday) from 12:00 to 13:00 (CDT) 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 13:00, and may be available sooner than that. If this window poses …

The scheduled reboot of the compute nodes has been completed. brad From: "Fritz, Brad" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 12:14 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: MCS compute nodes We are planning to reboot the MCS compute nodes on June 23rd, starting at 9am CST, to apply updates. Servers will be rebooted in the …

The scheduled reboot of the login nodes is now complete. brad From: "Fritz, Brad" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 9:36 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: MCS login nodes The MCS login nodes 1-4 will be rebooted this evening, June 22nd, at 5pm to apply updates. The logins will be rebooted one at a …

We are planning to reboot the MCS compute nodes on June 23rd, starting at 9am CST, to apply updates. Servers will be rebooted in the following order, one at a time. compute001.mcs.anl.gov thwomp.mcs.anl.gov stomp.mcs.anl.gov crush.mcs.anl.gov crank.mcs.anl.gov steamroller.mcs.anl.gov grind.mcs.anl.gov churn.mcs.anl.gov trounce.mcs.anl.gov thrash.mcs.anl.gov vanquish.mcs.anl.gov octagon.mcs.anl.gov octopus.mcs.anl.gov Only one compute node should be down at any given time. …

The MCS login nodes 1-4 will be rebooted this evening, June 22nd, at 5pm to apply updates. The logins will be rebooted one at a time, in order. Only one login node should be down at any given time. Brad

As a followup to the announcement I sent earlier, and after forwarding on the feedback I received (as did the others in the lab), we got a great response from BIS on this. I’ll just quote it verbatim, because it made me smile. This comes from Dave Salbego. You guys have forwarded some very informative …

Compute001 is back up. The faulty memory has been replaced, and the memory errors appear to have stopped. You may now resume use of the system. We will continue to monitor the system for the next few days. CELS Systems IT. From: <[email protected]> on behalf of "Fritz, Brad" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at …

We will be taking compute001 down today (June 7th 2017) at 5PM CST to replace some memory that has caused the machine to lock up a few times. Down time should be about 1 hour. We will send an all clear once service has been fully restored. CELS Systems IT.

The web-based VPN service run by BIS (https://vpn.anl.gov) has reached end of life, and BIS (the former CIS) would like to retire it. Before they do, they want to be sure it’s not a critical part of your work that we can’t find another solution for. First up, this is not getting rid of VPN …