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 …

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 …

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” …