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March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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 …

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File and Mail Server Outage 7/4/07

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Tips & Tricks Brownbag series

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Greetings! As announced in the last division meeting, the MCS Systems Group is going to start hosting a Tips & Tricks brownbag on Mondays, starting next week (7/9) at 12:00 in room A261. The format for this sort of thing is going to be very intera…

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Update

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Critical NFS Bug: Potential Data Loss

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Chiba City, R.I.P.

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

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…

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Service outage this weekend (5/19 and 5/20)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The building 221 power outage scheduled for this Saturday is off. It should be noted, however, that it is still a weekend-long maintenance window for CIS services, and we in MCS have some scheduled changes we’ll still be doing on our network and s…

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Machine room power outage, May 19, 2007

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hi, folks. We’ve known this might be a possibility but the dates and times have just ben nailed down, so it’s time to announce it. The electrical power for Building 221 will be shut off on Saturday, May 19, 2007 while the substation for the buildi…

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Important Windows Update

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

There’s a nasty Windows exploit going around. Microsoft has finally released a patch for it, and I strongly encourage every Windows user to make sure your computer (both work and home) is up to date. You can accomplish this by visiting http://wind…

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New web site, getting help, and plans for the future

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’ve been live with the new web site for a week now, and we’ve been filling in the missing pieces as they’re reported. I want to thank you all for your patience as we get up to speed on this, and I also want to thank Beth for her great work on th…

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