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REMINDER: Helix & Biowulf Systems Downtime, August 12-14, 2016
Date: 08 August 2016 13:08:42
From: Helix Systems Staff
Reminder regarding the extended maintenance window later this week:
Starting at 6 am on Friday August 12 and extending thru Sunday August
14, the NIH Helix and Biowulf systems staff will be performing storage
system maintenance.
The Helix system will be shutdown on Friday August 12 at 6 am and is
expected to be back online later that day by 6 pm. During this time,
there will be no access to Helix email. Once Helix is back online,
Helix email, home directories and /data directories located on /spin1
should be available for the remainder of the maintenance window. Data
directories located on a gpfs file system (/gs2, /gs3, /gs4 and /gs5)
will be unavailable. The location of your data or shared data
directory can be determined by running 'checkquota --gpfs'.
The Helixdrive & Mascot services will be unavailable for the duration
of the maintenance window.
The Biowulf cluster will be unavailable starting on Thursday August 11
at 9 pm and all running and queued cluster jobs will be deleted at that
time. The Biowulf login node will be unavailable for the duration of
the maintenance window starting at 6 am on Friday August 12.
All services are expected to be available no later than Sunday August 14 at 6 pm.
If you have any questions, please contact the NIH HPC staff at
staff@helix.nih.gov.
NIH HPC Staff
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