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The Big Move

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

It’s here! It’s underway! Things are moving! Move II: October 16-18 Full Disclosure (already down) Breadboard (already down) kbT compute cluster (already down) I2U2 resources (already down) LCRC DDN storage system (already down) MCS Core Computing…

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Mail Slowness

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

An over-aggressive DOE scanner spam-bombed us this afternoon, bringing our mail service to a crawl as three mail servers tried to deal with over 40,000 e-mail messages sent within a matter of minutes. We believe we got it all stopped, and all the …

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Pictures from the Datacenter move

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Pics taken by Max. All in all, it took a little less than 11 hours. Everything went generally smoothly. It bodes very well for the move in two weeks!

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First Datacenter Move

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The first phase of the move of equipment from our old datacenter (the BMR) to the new datacenter (the Core) is complete, from a physical perspective. All the racks made it over with no issues. On Friday, our smallest cluster was up and running. To…

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History

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Today, the first computer came up in our new datacenter, The Core. The cosmea cluster came up, largely without incident, and backed itself up to the tape library (that is, incidentally, still sitting in 221). Tomorrow’s gonna be a fun day.

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Datacenter Move, Episode I, The Phantom Menace

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Okay, folks, this is it. A little over two weeks ago, we moved a bunch of people into the spiffy new building. And this Friday, we begin the process of moving our computers over from the BMR to the Core (which is now what we’re calling the SSF). A…

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Upcoming moves and Updates

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Things have generally been “steady-state” with regards to the office moves, and we’re picking up the last pieces. Some notes. The copier/printer on 4 (4171) is still awaiting its PostScript module. (I referenced the wrong printer in my last post.)…

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Moving Madness

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Three full days in the new digs. We’re pretty much settled in, things are becoming normal, and we’re getting comfortable in our new surroundings. Thus far, there have been no zombie attacks from the rock gardens, so things are definitely starting …

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Printing and Wireless

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The wireless network in TCS is slightly different from the one in 221, and we have to open up some firewall holes to allow printing from guest wireless. This should be working soon, in the short term use Auth wireless (which you really should use …

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Mailing List Server out of disk space

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Our mailing list server ran out of space on 9/12/09. We’ve made some quick fixes to free up some, and will have the problem addressed permanently on Monday.

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