Planned power work in the data center took out our file server (which should have stayed up due to redundancy, but we think we may have a bad power supply). The team’s working to bring it back as we speak. Thanks for your patience.

vanquish has a long-running job on it, so we will postpone its rebuild until we can work with the owner of the job. crank has suffered a disk error, so its rebuild is being accelerated to this week (today). Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for your patience.

We’re pushing through on updating the remaining 64 bit compute nodes to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. Here’s the schedule: This week (through Sep 9) thwomp.mcs.anl.gov vanquish.mcs.anl.gov Next week (Sep 12-16) trounce.mcs.anl.gov churn.mcs.anl.gov Week 3 (Sep 19-23) crush.mcs.anl.gov crank.mcs.anl.gov grind.mcs.anl.gov Week 4 (Sep 26-30) compute001.mcs.anl.gov steamroller.mcs.anl.gov Week 5 (Oct 3-7) stomp.mcs.anl.gov During each rebuild, the machine will …

Confluence has been updated. When you login to https://collab.cels.anl.gov you may get a popup pointing out some of the changes. Let us know if you have any issues. Thanks!

Just a reminder the outage announced on Friday is happening at 5PM today. Thanks!

Hi, all. Our confluence server is behind the latest version by a few releases now, so we’d like to take the server down and bring it up to the current version. We’re expecting it won’t take this long, but we’re making the outage window 3 hours, from 5PM until 8PM on Tuesday, August 30. During …

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.