The power outage is finished. All systems should be back and in full operation. Please report any problems to [email protected] and we’ll get them taken care of. Thanks for your patience!

The 221 MCS Machine Room will have a power outage on Saturday, September 22, 2007 to install new power feeds for arriving equipment. The outage window is from 5:30AM until 6PM, and all core services are expected to be down during this time. Sorry …

We will be taking the e-mail gateway for MCS (mailgw.mcs.anl.gov) offline tomorrow, July 25th, from 7 AM until 9 AM to replace the machine due to a hardware failure. This outage will prevent users from sending any new messages, and incoming mail d…

The new file server is online, all operations are expected to be normal. Please report any problems you encounter to [email protected]. Big thanks to Rick and Max for spending their early July 4th morning performing this upgrade! Also, Gene and …

As announced on Friday we will be migrating our shared filesystems from our old fileservers to a brand new faster and higher capacity system. The migration will make it necessary for the MCS workstations and servers to be taken offline on July 4th…

Update on the situation, as promised. The new file server is up and running. We’re in the process of getting the data onto it. There’s about 12TB to move, so it will take a while. If all goes as planned, the data sync should be complete by this ti…

There is a critical bug on our AIX NFS servers (gorilla, kong and magilla) serving MCS home directories and MCS project data. This bug is encountered only on our newest linux desktops, a list of which appears at the bottom of this note. Specifical…

During a cooling emergency in February, we turned off the remaining racks of Chiba City, and they haven’t been turned on since. Power, cooling and space requirements in the machine room necessitate that we bid farewell to our first big cluster. Th…