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MCS Systems User Satisfaction Survey

by Stacey, Craig

Hey, gang. Communication is an important thing. Without it, we’d all just be a bunch of meat sticks making random noises and gestures at each other. A part of communication that’s important to any service organization is feedback. Sometimes, that …

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We're moved!

by Stacey, Craig

Wow, what a day. Most of us got here over 15 hours ago, some of us are still here. I’m a little punch drunk, so I’ll give a quick summary and perhaps a better post mortem later in the week. All equipment was moved without incident. Boyer-Rosene (t…

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The Big Move

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

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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First Datacenter Move

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

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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Upcoming moves and Updates

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

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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