Greetings, We have to reboot the main MCS/CELS file server known as sto10.mcs.anl.gov at Noon today. We have experienced a number of unexpected outages on our main file server over the last week, which take out or workstation and compute node infrastructure. We took the opportunity at the recent power outage to upgrade the system …

If you currently access Dayforce via http://dash.anl.gov, you can ignore this note, it doesn’t affect you in any way. If you currently access Dayforce via Remote Desktop to rdp.mcs.anl.gov, we’ve had to make a small change. The latest version of Firefox breaks Silverlight, which is required for Dayforce. The global desktop shortcut to Dayforce on …

If you notice anything out of the ordinary, please report it to us at [email protected]. Thanks for your patience.

See https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/reminder-data-center-and-systems-outage-monday-march-6-2017/ for details. Systems are starting to come down now in anticipation of the 9AM outage. Follow the twitter feed for updates. We’re also fighting an unrelated issue taking out some services including collab.cels.anl.gov. Work on that is proceeding and we hope to have things back shortly.

This is a reminder of my previous announcement regarding Monday’s outage (see https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/data-center-and-systems-outage-monday-march-6-2017/) There is one change worth noting from the initial announcement.  Wired desktop networks for CELS, MCS, and ALCF will also be down during this outage.  Linux desktops in 240 were already going to go down due to the back-end infrastructure going down, …

In order to install a new breaker panel in the building 240 data center, electric power needs to be taken down for a subsection of the data center – unfortunately that section comprises the bulk of the computers in the room. This outage will effectively take down the computers in the 240 data center. The …

In the coming months, Argonne will be moving its email service from Microsoft Exchange servers hosted on-site running an old version of Microsoft Exchange to a hosted solution run by Microsoft. I’ve been on this new service for about a year at least, and it’s great – much more capable than the current offering at …

We have updated packages for Endnote, now at version X8. The updated packages can be found at the links below. Mac users: http://www.cels.anl.gov/macos#Mac_OS_X_Software Windows users: http://www.cels.anl.gov/windows/Software#Endnote_X8 Please note these links are for CELS (MCS, ALCF, EVS, BIO, CELS & associated institutes) employees only. Do not distribute these files or licenses beyond your own use. The …

Greetings, The file server migration and maintenance project is complete. We had to reboot the login servers and all the compute nodes, our apologies if any of your jobs were interrupted. You may need to reboot your workstation if you are not able to write into your home directory. Contact the CELS Help Desk if …

The file server maintenance we postponed in October is now taking place and will continue from 9AM onward (all day) to finally migrate the rest of our unix homes off the aging file server onto our new one. To do this, we have functionally taken the home filesystem offline. During this period, all home filesystems …