[Snic-users] Triolith and Gamma compute nodes unavailable Thursday June 7th from 09:00

[Mats Kronberg]

Good news: the Triolith and Gamma downtime on Thursday has been
cancelled. The storage vendor figured out how to safely recover from
the problem without stopping the system, and we did so successfully
half an hour ago.

//Mats


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:55 AM Mats Kronberg <kronberg at nsc.liu.se> wrote:
>
> Dear Triolith and Gamma users,
>
> On Thursday June 7th, from 09:00 CEST, all Triolith and Gamma compute
> nodes will be unavailable. Login nodes will be available, but there's
> a small chance that you might be logged out with little or no warning.
>
> Jobs that cannot finish before Thursday 09:00 will not be started
> until after the downtime.
>
> This downtime is needed to allow the storage vendor and NSC to recover
> from another unexpected problem encountered during the storage
> conversion that's being done to connect Centre Storage (/home, /proj)
> to our new generation systems (Tetralith and Sigma). If the vendor can
> figure out a way to solve the problem without downtime we will cancel
> it.
>
> We will resume starting new jobs as soon as we deem it safe to do so.
> If this takes more than 4 hours, we will keep you informed of our
> progress.
>
>
> --
> Mats Kronberg, NSC Support <support at nsc.liu.se>