A hard drive failed in thrash and in rebuilding it we moved it to the new trusty build (Ubuntu 14.04). This is functionally a completely fresh install with no carryover except the hostname and SSH keys, so any crontabs or other local data would not be there. As we move more servers to trusty, we’ll …

At 2:28 PM today, the lab suffered a partial site-wide power outage. I do not yet have the exact cause, though it was no doubt related to the incredible storm we were seeing. I happened to be recording the storm outside my window right as the power went off, so you can hear my exasperation …

I’m hopinh we’ll be back soon, but I still have no info on root cause, actual scope of outage, or an estimate on time to return to operation.

More details as we have them.

See the attached note from Cyber. Short story is if you’re not current on MacOS, you’ll start getting blocked by the proxy if you’re on Argonne Auth wifi. Systems is taking care of machines we manage. It appears that Apple has fallen victim to the a vuln very similar to last year’s StageFright found on …

v8 is now rebuilt. Feel free to test it out and let us know what pieces you think are missing from the new Trusty linux environment.

We’ve got a two phased linux compute environment upgrade we’re in the process of doing this year. Phase one is rolling out an Ubuntu 14.04 build (aka Trusty), and phase two will be rolling out a CentOS 7 build. Phase two won’t be starting until end of summer, but phase one is already under way, …

Hi, all! I’ve got a couple of quick announcements to knock out here, so let’s get to it. New staff! Jasan left our group a few weeks ago for a fantastic opportunity, and we’ve just now been able to bring on his replacement. Please welcome Steve Verdone to the group! He’ll be manning the Help …

The core IT services provided by CELS Systems are back online. This includes the BIO infrastructure, the MCS general computing infrastructure, and any virtual machines CELS Systems hosts. Other larger systems (such as the compute clusters) will come back online as previously announced by their admin teams. We had a few issues during the outage, …

First announcement: https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/cels-systems-outage-june-17-19-2016/ Second announcement: https://mcssys.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/cels-systems-outage-june-17-19-2016-2/ For status updates during the outage you can follow our twitter account at https://twitter.com/mcssys First, updates for BIO (MCS/CELS announcements follow this section): I’m awaiting word that the switchover is complete, but we should have DHCP (network address assignment) switched over to CIS servers today, which means if a …