Messages & Announcements

  • 2012-12-09:  Tusker NFS restored, outage affected /home and /util
    Category:  System Failure

    The NFS server for Tusker stopped responding Sunday morning. This caused access to /home and /util to stall, as well as affecting SSH logins. After a reboot, the NFS service appears to be working normally. We apologize for the inconvenience.


    The NFS server for Tusker stopped responding Sunday morning. This caused access to /home and /util to stall, as well as affecting SSH logins. After a reboot, the NFS service appears to be working normally. We apologize for the inconvenience.

  • 2012-11-26:  Tusker Shutdown Dec. 17
    Category:  Maintenance

    A December 17th shutdown is planned for Tusker. During the shutdown we will be performing maintenance on, and upgrading, the Lustre storage system which supplies the /work filesystem. We request users to remove as much data as possible from the /work filesystem between now and then to 1) ensure it will be possible to wait until after finals week (Dec. 17) and 2) to help minimize the time required to perform the upgrade. Additional disks will be added to the storage array to improve reliability of the system -- the less data there is to move and/or re-stripe, the faster this process will be.

    Tusker will be made available immediately after this maintenance is complete.


    Four new disk enclosures will be added to the Lustre file system serving Tusker. Details are being worked out in discussions with the vendor (Terascala), but the end result will be a more robust, and likely slightly larger, filesystem. Right now multiple RAID 5 disk sets are in service (as was required by the vendor). HCC has succeeded in negotiating a change to RAID 6, but the migration path is still being finalized.

  • 2012-11-01:  SANDHILLS: service restored
    Category:  Maintenance

    SANDHILLS brief maintenance complete, the system is now available for use.


    SANDHILLS brief maintenance complete, the system is now available for use.

  • 2012-11-01:  SANDHILLS: Brief outage of logon node today shortly after 5pm
    Category:  Maintenance

    A brief outage is necessary on the SANDHILLS logon node to finish up maintenance operations from yesterday. No running jobs will be impacted. The outage should last approximately 45 minutes and will start at shortly after 5:00 pm. If you are logged onto SANDHILLS you will be kicked off and will not be able to log in until the maintenance is complete (approx. 45 minutes).


    A brief outage is necessary on the SANDHILLS logon node to finish up maintenance operations from yesterday. No job (running or waiting) should be impacted. The outage should last approximately 45 minutes and will start at shortly after 5:00 pm today. If you are logged into SANDHILLS you will be kicked off and will not be able to log back in until the maintenance is complete (approx. 45 minutes).

  • 2012-10-31:  SANDHILLS: Maintenance complete
    Category:  General Announcement

    Maintenance on SANDHILLS cluster is complete. New filesystems are installed and modules are reconfigured. Pending jobs are running and system is available for use.


    Maintenance on SANDHILLS cluster is complete. New filesystems are installed and modules are reconfigured. Pending jobs are running and the system is available for use. Let us know if you encounter any trouble.