News & Announcements
REMINDER -- DOWNTIME Scheduled for NIH Biowulf (Biowulf)
Date: 21 July 2010 09:07:58From: steven fellini (sfellini@NIH.GOV)
The Biowulf cluster will be down during the afternoon and evening of Monday July 26. The batch system will be shut down at 3 pm and all running jobs will be terminated. Queued jobs will be preserved; if you would like to have your queued jobs deleted as well, please inform the Biowulf staff. The Biowulf login node will remain available until 6 pm. We hope to have the cluster back up and running jobs by midnight. Mail will be sent to Biowulf users when the system is again available. The original announcement follows: --------------------------- There will be a general downtime for the NIH Biowulf Cluster during the afternoon and evening of Monday July 26. The cluster will be unavailable during this time. The login node will remain available until approximately 6 pm. If you are planning on submitting long-running jobs without checkpointing or large swarms, please keep this date in mind as running jobs will be terminated. Queued jobs will _not_ be affected. Additional details will be included in a reminder e-mail several days before the scheduled downtime. Please send questions or comments to staff@biowulf.nih.gov.

