Reminder: Biowulf Downtime Friday (Biowulf)

A reminder that the cluster will be going down for
extended maintenance in 48 hours.  All batch jobs
(running and queued) will be cleared from the
system at that time.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: steven fellini 
> Date: August 18, 2009 10:58:03 AM EDT
> To: BIOWULF-USERS-L@LIST.NIH.GOV
> Subject: Extended Biowulf Downtime August 28-30, 2009
> Reply-To: steven fellini 
>
> This message is a follow-up to the announcement of August
> 7th to Helix Systems users.
>
> The entire Biowulf cluster will be shut down on Friday
> August 28, and will be unavailable for 24-48 hours (this
> is the first downtime for the cluster since June 2008).
> During the downtime Biowulf staff will reconfigure
> filesystems, networks, and upgrade the PBS batch system.
>
> A provisional schedule for the downtime follows:
>
> Friday August 28
> 3 pm: the batch system will be shut down.  All running
>      and queued batch jobs will be deleted from the
>      system.
>
> 6 pm: the login node (biowulf.nih.gov) will be unavailable.
>
> Depending on the progress of the various maintenance
> activities, the cluster could be back online as early as
> Saturday afternoon, or as late as Sunday afternoon.
> E-mail will be sent to Biowulf users when the cluster is
> again available.
>
> Please send questions and comments to staff@biowulf.nih.gov.