Early this afternoon, the fire department was called by the folks in the basement level who reported an electrical burning smell. Around the same time, one of the power panels in the machine room (one that powers half of Jazz) went down. After som…

I was thinking of the right thing to title this dispatch. I started with “Progress is progress, but sometimes it’s slow.” That sums things up somewhat, because we’re making progress, just not as quickly as I’d like. But, still, it didn’t feel righ…

Greetings, humans! I’m going to try my best to get these out on the order of once a month or so in order to keep everyone well informed of what’s going on with their environment. In this issue: a limited downtime announcement for some servers, a Z…

Thanks for all who attended. Here are the relevant URLs from the talk. The talk itself: http://anl.acrobat.com/p52667910/ The list of sensitive countries: http://www.ipd.anl.gov/excontrol/restricted/sensitive.pdf