Around 5:30 this morning the virtual machine that serves wordpress.cels.anl.gov had a failure. We restored service at 8:41, but we want to put a longer-term solution in place to prevent this in the future. This requires a reboot of the server. It shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes, but I wanted to provide a heads-up. …

BIS is aware of the issue and is working on rectifying it. See vector.anl.gov in the “News” section (bottom center) for more info. Wee, happy new year!

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Hi again, everyone! This notice is of particular interest to the folks who work in building 240 (or will do so again once this whole thing is in the past). On Friday morning, Dec 11, BIS will begin converting the CELS Canon printer/copiers to BIS management. You’ll get a separate notice from them about this, …

Hi, everyone, hope you had a good Thanksgiving! I wanted to let you know about a change that was put in place on Argonne’s Office 365 service a couple of weeks back. The high level summary is that if you try to authorize a new application to access your mail, you may encounter a new …

Please note the email announcement you should have received from TCS Building Management referring to electrical work on the east side of Building 240 tonight.  As with last night, if your desktop computer is on the east side of the building, it will likely lose power tonight. If it does not come back on its …

At this point, we believe we’ve got the pieces put back into place for both CELS General Compute Environment and the legacy MCS networks. It’s possible individual workstations in offices may need to be rebooted, but most should have recovered gracefully. We are identifying and fixing things we find haven’t come back, but if something …

Please see prior announcements here and here.  We will send an all clear via email, as well as post an announcement to this blog and Twitter. Thanks!

A noted previously, data center construction requires the room to be without power to the computing floor most of the day on Monday, October 19. For CELS General Computing Environment and MCS Legacy environment, all workstations, fileservers, and login nodes will be offline beginning at 9PM on Sunday, October 18. Once we receive the all …

Due to the construction in the data center linking the expansion into the rest of the building, the power to the room will be interrupted for most of the day on Monday, October 19. The exact timing of what will be turned off when is being worked out and we will send another announcement once …