News & Announcements
REMINDER - NIH Biowulf Downtime Tomorrow (Biowulf)
Date: 25 April 2011 08:04:41From: steven fellini (sfellini@NIH.GOV)
The Biowulf cluster will be unavailable during the afternoon and evening hours tomorrow for software/hardware maintenance and reconfigurations. The batch system will be shut down at 3 PM; all running jobs will be terminated. In addition, all queued swarm jobs will be deleted from the system. The Biowulf login node will remain available until 6 PM. Please do not submit swarms today that will not complete by 3 PM tomorrow. Email will be sent to users when the system is again available. The original announcement follows: > From: steven fellini> Date: March 29, 2011 12:02:01 PM EDT > To: > Subject: DOWNTIME Scheduled for NIH Biowulf > Reply-To: steven fellini > > There will be a general downtime for the NIH Biowulf Cluster > during the afternoon and evening of Tuesday April 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.