Category Archives: Cluster Status Updates

Upcoming JHPCE downtime for power work – April 25 – 27

Posted on 2017-03-27 by Mark Miller

The JHPCE cluster will be unavailable from 5:00 AM on Tuesday, April 25th to 5:00 PM on Thursday, April 27th for planned power work that will be performed at the Bayview/MARCC facility. Please schedule your jobs accordingly. Sorry for this … Continue reading →

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Maintenance on DCS01 Thursday, December 29th from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Posted on 2016-12-26 by Mark Miller

The DCS01 Storage Array will be offline this Thursday, December 29th, starting at 8:00 AM for system maintenance.  Please schedule your jobs accordingly.  We may need to forcibly terminate any jobs that we find using any storage in the /dcs01 … Continue reading →

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Status of the datacenter move

Posted on 2016-08-22 by Fernando Pineda

We moved the hardware to Bayview over the weekend. Mark and Jiong are currently bringing up, updating and testing the various systems.  We are relieved to report that all the file systems survived the move. Accordingly there will be no … Continue reading →

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Cluster is down for the move to the Bayview datacenter

Posted on 2016-08-18 by Fernando Pineda

Logins have been disabled in preparation for our move to the University’s colocation facility at Bayview.  Stay tuned for updates…

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Upcoming JHPCE Cluster Move and Downtime – August 18th – 24th

Posted on 2016-06-28 by Mark Miller

We will be moving the JHPCE cluster equipment to the University’s new collocation site on the Bayview Campus. We are on track to outgrow the existing server room, which has limited power and cooling capabilities. The change of venue will have no … Continue reading →

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Upcoming changes to home directories.

Posted on 2016-05-10 by Mark Miller

tl;dr – At some point over the next month, your home directory will be changing from /home/*/USERID to /users/USERID. Recently we purchased a new storage array for the JHPCE cluster, with the intention of consolidating a number of our older, … Continue reading →

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JHPCE Cluster Maintenance – Thursday, August 27th from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Posted on 2015-08-20 by Mark Miller

On Thursday, August 27th from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM, we will be performing Maintenance on the Amber1 storage array to upgrade its Operating System.   We have had a number of issues with the Amber1 array in the recent past, … Continue reading →

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JHPCE Cluster Change To Set User Memory Limit – Tuesday, August 4th, from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Posted on 2015-07-28 by Mark Miller

Dear JHPCE Community, With the ever increasing usage on the JHPCE cluster, we have had, during very busy times, a number of cases where individuals have been unable to access cluster resources.  In investigating the issue we have found that … Continue reading →

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Work to be done on the JHPCE login servers on Thursday, March 19th from 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Posted on 2015-03-18 by Mark Miller

Dear JHPCE Community, Please be advised that work will be performed on the jhpce01 and jhpce02 login servers  on March 19th from 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM. During this time there may be brief periods when the JHPCE servers will … Continue reading →

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Two-factor authentication is coming

Posted on 2015-01-08 by Fernando Pineda

Dear Users, Up to now, we have depended on unix userid/passwords to restrict access to the JHPCE cluster. Unfortunately, it is well known that passwords are hopelessly obsolete and we cannot depend on a string of characters for protection. Don’t … Continue reading →

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