{"id":951,"date":"2012-06-13T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2012\/06\/13\/important-notification-icts-hpc-downtime-in-july"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:08:45","slug":"important-notification-icts-hpc-downtime-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/important-notification-icts-hpc-downtime-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Important notification &#8211; ICTS HPC downtime in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Notification of downtime <span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><big><big>NB,\r\nplease read this!<\/big><\/big><\/span>:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data\r\ncentre shut down in 6 weeks time.\r\n\r\nThe ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the\r\n22nd of July between 08h00 and 18h00 for electrical maintenance.\r\nThis is part of the planned yearly maintenance cycle.\u00a0 Please ensure\r\nthat your jobs are check-pointed if possible and shut down by no\r\nlater than Saturday evening.\u00a0 If jobs are left still running we\r\ncannot be held responsible for lost or corrupted data.\r\n\r\n<strong>Request for references and citations:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIf you have published papers or submitted a thesis and have\r\nreferenced the ICTS HPC cluster please let us know so that we can\r\nadd to our list of references and citations.\u00a0 The details of how to\r\nsubmit an acknowledgement can be fond here:\r\n<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/Citations.html\">https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/Citations.html<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Old accounts:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nPlease let us know if you no longer require your HPC account.\u00a0 We\r\nwould like to do a data clean-up on the file system and will be\r\nmoving data from inactive accounts to archive.\r\n\r\n<strong>Increase in disk space and plans for a new cluster:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWe will be presenting an additional 25TB data area: \/home2.\r\nResearchers needing extra disk space may request access to this with\r\na motivation.\u00a0 When we deploy our new cluster later in the year this\r\ndata area will be presented as \/home, making migration from the old\r\ncluster trivial.\u00a0 As part of our plan to archive research data in\r\nthe long term we will be replacing our Gluster scratch area with a\r\n25 TB scratch area which researchers can have RW access to on\r\nrequest as well as an additional 25TB archive area for long term\r\nbackups.\r\n\r\nWe are working on the deployment of a new cluster.\u00a0 OS will be\r\nScientific Linux 6.x as this provides a more modern suite of\r\npackages.\u00a0 This will be run in parallel with our current cluster and\r\nwill have a fewer servers initially, however the focus will be on\r\nhomogeneous hardware with a large number of cores and RAM per\r\nserver.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Notification of downtime NB,<br \/>\n            please read this!:<\/p>\n<p>    This serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data<br \/>\n    centre shut down in 6 weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>    The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Important notification - ICTS HPC downtime in July - UCT HPC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/important-notification-icts-hpc-downtime-in-july\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Important notification - ICTS HPC downtime in July - UCT HPC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Notification of downtime NB,       please read this!:      This serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data   centre shut down in 6 weeks time.      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