Hi all, Our compute servers are due for some maintenance and reconfiguring. We’re going to start this process by doing a single one, and based on that decide the schedule for the rest. Pay special attention – /sandbox will not be preserved. This maintenance will also become a quarterly thing on our compute servers, including …

The lab is looking into what it’s going to do for a conferencing solution going forward. We currently use Adobe Connect (which is up for renewal at end of the fiscal year) as well as ReadyTalk (which is going away at the end of the FY). If you have any thoughts on what you do …

All, We’re going to postpone this upgrade. WordPress put out a new major release since the first upgrade announcement yesterday and we’ll need to test it first. thanks! -John On Apr 16, 2014, at 1:32 PM, John Roberts wrote: > All, > > We need to upgrade our WordPress install to the latest version. We …

All, We need to upgrade our WordPress install to the latest version. We plan to do this tomorrow, April 17th, at Noon. Downtime is expected to only last for a couple of minutes. The following sites will be affected: argo-osr.org cerisc.mcs.anl.gov esp.alcf.anl.gov estrfi.cels.anl.gov events.alcf.anl.gov events.cels.anl.gov extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov inside.cels.anl.gov jlse.anl.gov papka.alcf.anl.gov press3.mcs.anl.gov sc11.anl.gov sc12.anl.gov symposium30.cels.anl.gov tcs.anl.gov www.mpich.org …

We have successfully wrangled the beast. Boy, do we hate botnets.

Some of our sites are being hit with a denial of service attack. This is resulting in temporary failures on a number of MCS sites, including www.mcs.anl.gov. We’re working to get things back up quickly.

Just a reminder, we are sending in our orders this Friday, April 18th. If you have already responded to us, you can ignore this message. Hi all, Summer is approaching and so it’s time to order any new equipment needed for the influx of visitors. Below are the specs on our recommended equipment for this …

CIS is planning their next maintenance weekend from Friday, May 16 through Sunday, May 18. The actual scope of the work to be performed is not yet set, but please let us know if there are any significant impacts any sort of outage would have during these dates so we can plan accordingly. Thanks!

The lab is going through a cyber-security audit this month, which will have a few phases. They’re going to be trying any number of things to test our defenses and our ability to recognize and deal with cyber threats. Social engineering/phishing is almost certain to be part of their toolkit, and at some point they’ll …

Below is the notice I sent out last month on this. This is just a reminder that it’s happening today. I neglected to mention in the prior notice that older Mac OS installations would also fall into the End of Life rule, and thus anything running MacOS 10.6 or earlier will not be able to …