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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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

We have just been informed that there is going to be emergency power work performed by the Facilities Management group in the SPH building which will affect the datacenter that houses the JHPCE cluster.  This work is planned to start … Continue reading →

Dear JHPCE Community, On Sunday, November 2nd from 1:00PM – 4:00 PM, we will be performing Maintenance on the Amber1 storage array.  This storage array is used for home directories on the JHPCE cluster, so logins to the cluster will … Continue reading →