{"id":1035,"date":"2011-09-29T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T07:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2011\/09\/29\/surviving-the-poewr-outage"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:58:28","slug":"surviving-the-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/09\/29\/surviving-the-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"Yesterday's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/what-caused-citywide-blackout-1.1146520\">Peninsula wide blackout<\/a> fortunately had no effect on our HPC and Grid systems.\u00a0 Both data center generators kept their UPS's running until power was restored after about an hour.\r\n\r\nAs can be seen from the monitoring dashboard all devices at UCT and its peripheral campuses not connected to some form of UPS were down.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3916-power.png\" alt=\"power cut\" border=\"0\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/what-caused-citywide-blackout-1.1146520\">Peninsula wide blackout<\/a> fortunately had no effect on our HPC and Grid systems.&nbsp; Both data center generators kept their UPS&#8217;s running until power was restored after about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen from the monitoring dashboard all devices at UCT and its peripheral campuses not connected to some form of UPS were down. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/3916-power.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"power cut\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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