Due to the lab’s recommendation on telecommuting tomorrow, our in-person presence will be reduced tomorrow. We’ll all be online and responding to requests. If something urgent comes up that requires an in-person presence, a number of us are prepared to come in and deal with it, but there will be obvious delays due to travel …

The file server maintenance we postponed in October will be taking place on this coming Saturday, Dec 17 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 need to functionally take the home filesystem offline. During this …

Greetings, This is the ALL-CLEAR The file server reboot completed without incident. All filesystems should be available again. If you are having trouble do this first: Restart your terminal session. Reboot your workstation. If this doesn’t seem to help then contact the CELS Helpdesk. Thanks for your patience

File Server Reboot on Saturday, November 12th from 10:AM until 12 Noon In order to apply important system updates and security patches we will be rebooting the file server called sto10.mcs.anl.gov this Saturday morning. We expect the work to take no more than an hour to complete but are scheduling a 2 hour “outage window” …

File Server Reboot on Saturday, November 12th from 10:AM until 12 Noon In order to apply important system updates and security patches we will be rebooting the file server called sto10.mcs.anl.gov this Saturday morning. We expect the work to take no more than an hour to complete but are scheduling a 2 hour “outage window” …

Thanks to initiative from Anthony Avarca in CNM, who polled the various divisions on interest level, we’ve now got site licensing for EndNote X7 Mac users Windows users 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 …

Due to a zero-day exploit of a Linux kernel vulnerability, we need to upgrade the machines login1, login2, login3, and login4.mcs.anl.gov (collectively known as login.mcs.anl.gov). These machines will be replaced with new builds matching what’s running currently on login2.mcs.anl.gov (Ubuntu Trusty 14.04), but with the latest Linux kernel. These upgrades are happening as we speak. …

Once again we have to push this off. We’re awaiting resolution from a vendor on a problem we’re having with backups before we make this move. We don’t have a timeline on this resolution, so at this point the maintenance is postponed until further notice. I will announce it at least a week in advance …

The upgrade took longer than expected (slightly exotic hardware, plus it takes forever to boot due to its 1.5TB of RAM). Please let us know any issues you encounter, missing packages, etc. Once the last of the compute servers is up to date next week, we’ll start on the remaining linux desktops. If you want …