System News
02.17.13
All Systems - Facility Maintenance
AFRL DSRC Facility Preventative Maintenance affecting all systems, February 17-19, 2013
The AFRL DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) will undergo a Facility Preventative Maintenance. The facility maintenance period will be 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 February 2013 through 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 February 2013. This maintenance period is based upon weather-related conditions, and is subject to cancellation. If a cancellation occurs, you will be notified in advance.
NOTE: The RAPTOR system and the Advanced Reservation System (ARS) are scheduled to be unavailable one (1) additional day, with a tentative return to service on Wednesday, 20 February 2013, beginning at 0800 hours EST.
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:
Sunday, 3 February 2013: Beginning at 1800 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, 20 February 2013: Beginning at 0800 hours EST, RAPTOR is back in production. New jobs may be submitted.
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ADVANCE RESERVATION SERVICE (ARS) - Unavailable: Reservations cannot be made for this period beginning 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 February 2013 through 0800 hours EST Wednesday, 20 February 2013.
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CENTER-WIDE FILE SYSTEM (CWFS) and MASS STORAGE ARCHIVAL SYSTEM (MSAS) - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 February 2013 through 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 February 2013.
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SPIRIT (Pioneer):
System will remain up, and running jobs will continue to run. However, new jobs will not start, and interactive access will not be available from 1800 hours ETS Sunday, 17 February 2013 through 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 February 2013. After interactive access has been restored, users should check results of any jobs that exited during the maintenance period.
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CCAC - Will not have access to e-mail or service tickets after 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 February 2013. Normal CCAC operations will resume at 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 February 2013.
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UAS SERVERS - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 February 2013 through 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 February 2013.
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LIVETIME - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 February 2013. Availability resumes at 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 February 2013.
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UTILITY SERVER - Unavailable: 1800 hours EST Sunday, 17 January 2013. Availability resumes at 0800 hours EST Tuesday, 19 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 17 February 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).
