POSTPONED: NIH Biowulf DOWNTIME Apr 1-2 (Biowulf)

The downtime originally scheduled for tomorrow
evening has been postponed until a later date.
You will be notified when a new date has been
set.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: steven fellini 
> Date: March 17, 2008 3:52:06 PM EDT
> To: biowulf-users@helix.nih.gov
> Subject: NIH Biowulf DOWNTIME Apr 1-2
>
> The power feeds for the Biowulf cluster machine room will be
> upgraded to a more robust topology during the evening/early
> morning of April 1-2.  This will require the entire complex
> to be powered down.  The Biowulf staff will be taking advantage
> of this downtime to do various hardware and software upgrades.
>
> A provisional schedule for the downtime follows:
>
> Tuesday April 1
> 3 pm: the batch system will be shut down.  All jobs running
> on the cluster at this time will be terminated.  Queued jobs
> will be unaffected and will be scheduled to run when the
> system resumes.
>
> 6 pm: the login node (biowulf.nih.gov) will be unavailable.
>
> Wednesday April 2
>  6 am - 9 am: Cluster nodes will be brought online. Queued jobs
>  will be started when the batch system is brought up. We hope
>  to have the cluster fully operational and available to users by
>  9 am.
>
> Please send questions and comments to staff@biowulf.nih.gov.