System News
01.19.13
All Systems - Facility Maintenance
MODIFIED - AFRL DSRC Facility Preventative Maintenance affecting all systems, January 19-23, 2013NOTE: The Raptor PM was moved up one day to Saturday, 19 January, 2013. This change also modifies the start of the Raptor queue drain and the Advanced Reservation System (ARS) period by one day.
The AFRL DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) will undergo a Facility Preventative Maintenance. The maintenance period will be 0800 hours EST Saturday, 19 January 2013 through 0800 hours EST Wednesday, 23 January 2013.
The RAPTOR system will be unavailable during the entire maintenance period. It will be undergoing disk system maintenance. NOTE: All files are subject to deletion during this maintenance period. Please be sure to back up your files.
We recommend you review the following Important User Notes and take any necessary action to minimize impact to your project schedules.
IMPORTANT USER NOTES:
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RAPTOR:
Saturday, 5 January 2013: Beginning at 0800 hours EST, queues on the RAPTOR started draining. No new jobs will start on the RAPTOR that will not finish by the time of the outage.
Wednesday, 23 January 2013: Beginning at 0800 hours EST, RAPTOR is back in production. New jobs may be submitted.
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CCAC - Will not have access to e-mail or service tickets after 1800 hours EST Sunday, 20 January 2013. Normal CCAC operations will resume at 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 22 January 2013.
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ADVANCE RESERVATION SERVICE (ARS) - Unavailable: Reservations cannot be made for this period beginning 0800 hours EST Saturday, 19 January 2013 through 0800 hours EST Wednesday, 23 January 2013.
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UAS SERVERS - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 20 January 2013 through 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 22 January 2013.
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LIVETIME - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 20 January 2013. Will resume at 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 22 January 2013.
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UTILITY SERVER - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 20 January 2013. Will resume at 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 22 January 2013.
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THE KERBEROS KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTER (KDC) server - Will remain available.
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WORKSPACE:- The AFRL DSRC STRONGLY suggests that users move data from workspace to the MSAS PRIOR to this maintenance period. Data on workspace is volatile and is not automatically backed up.
To help avoid premature file deletion on RAPTOR after it has returned to production, we will grant extra lifetime to the files, 3 days, plus a grace period of an additional 1 day.
- Files scheduled to be deleted prior to the outage on 19 January will still be removed as scheduled.
- Files scheduled to be deleted during the outage period will not be deleted.
- Files existing at the end of the outage will be given 4 extra days of lifetime.
If you have any questions, please call the Consolidated Customer Assistance Center (CCAC) at 877-CCAC-039 (877 222-2039).
