From mvertens at ucar.edu Mon Jun 9 14:50:04 2008 From: mvertens at ucar.edu (Mariana Vertenstein) Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:50:04 -0600 Subject: [Ccsm-users] latest update for bluefire, bluevista and blueice Message-ID: <484D977C.3080501@ucar.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CISL Daily Bulletin Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:02:59 -0600 (MDT) From: dailyb at ucar.edu (Daily Bulletin) To: dailyb-doc at ucar.edu (Daily Bulletin List) DAILY BULLETIN Calendar of Events (Details follow) June 09, 2008 Issued at 0900 What When Summary ----- ----- ---------- Bluefire Availability 06/06/08 See Details Below Bluefire/Blueice Change 06/04/08 See Details Below mail.ucar.edu Update 06/06/08 1730-2000 See Details Below IDL Upgrade 05/30/08 See Details Below Mass Store Downtime Every Sunday 0000-0200 Weekly Backup Bluevista Maintenance 06/10/08 0600-1300 Monthly Lightning Maintenance 06/17/08 0600-1800 Monthly Pegasus Maintenance 06/24/08 0600-1800 Monthly ______________________________________________________________________________ ** TODAY'S NEWS ** ______________________________________________________________________________ Bluefire Availability ______________________ Friday 06/06/08 Stage one of bluefire's installation and acceptance testing has completed. CISL expects to open up 33 nodes of bluefire to the user community on Tuesday, June 10, for a short transition period while blueice is still available. On Monday, June 16, CISL will turn off user access to bluefire starting at 08:00 Mountain Time through June 18 (dates and times may change!). This will allow IBM to prepare for the integration and testing of the remaining nodes of bluefire. CISL does not have a definite date for the release of the remaining nodes of bluefire, but expects it to be around July 1. Users who have used their account on blueice in the past six months should be able to login to bluefire using their blueice password. Bluefire and blueice are sharing the same home directories and ptmp directories, so there is no need to migrate files from blueice to bluefire. For more information please consult the Bluefire Quick Start Guide on the bluefire web page, http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/bluefire/ If you have questions about bluefire and running your code on bluefire, please contact Customer Support: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/support/ Bluefire / Blueice Transition in June - New Schedule ____________________________________________________ Updated Wednesday 06/04/08 New information for bluevista, fis, and division filesystem users The installation and testing of NCAR's newest supercomputer, an IBM POWER6 computer, called bluefire, is going well. Thirty-three nodes of bluefire may be available to the user community as early as Monday, June 9. Please see the Daily Bulletin for the latest information. The characteristics of bluefire and a getting started guide is available at: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/bluefire/ Note: There is no need for users to move files from blueice to bluefire. Blueice files (home and ptmp directories) will be automatically mounted on bluefire. Due to electrical power limitations in the NCAR computing facility, blueice and the entire bluefire cluster cannot be powered-up at the same time, so blueice will be decommissioned, but no earlier than 08:00 Mountain Time on *June 16* (updated). Important downtimes after blueice is decommissioned, week of June 16: - Electrical load testing and completion of bluefire installation (2nd stage) will mean that bluevista, bluefire, the fis filesystem and divisional filesystems will be unavailable for 2-3 days, most likely during the week of June 16. Details on the downtimes will be published in the Daily Bulletin. Please plan on interruptions in your computing work during the week of June 16. Due to power constraints, a portion of bluevista will be permanently powered off, most likely during the week of June 16, to provide electrical power for the rest of bluefire. This increases the need for users to transition to bluefire as soon as possible. Bluevista queues will get long! For the latest information on the availability of bluefire and scheduled downtimes please see the Daily Bulletin: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/cpg/dailyb/todays.html If you have questions about bluefire and running your code on bluefire, please contact Customer Support: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/support/ CommuniGate Downtime Notification: mail.ucar.edu ________________________________________________ Monday 06/02/08 On Friday, June 6 from 1730-2000, mail.ucar.edu was down for system updating. WARNING: communigate users who did not close down their session before this down time, will have deleted (but not expunged) messages returned to their INBOX upon communigate restart. IDL Upgrade on Data Analysis and Visualization Clusters _______________________________________________________ Friday 05/30/08 IDL 7.0 is now available for testing on the Data Analysis and Visualization clusters. The current production version, 6.2, will be retired on June 16. The old version will be available at an alternate path until July 14 at which point it will be removed. You may access the new version at: /fs/local/apps/rsi/idl70/bin/idl You may access the old version at: /fs/local/apps/rsi/idl_6.2/bin/idl Further information on the Data Analysis and Visualization clusters may be found at http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/dasg/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** RECENT NEWS ** ______________________________________________________________________________ Data Analysis and Visualization Clusters ________________________________________ Thursday 05/22/08 CISL Data Analysis and Services Group provides two clusters for Data Analysis and High-End 3D Visualization to the NCAR user community. Accounts are available to all users of NCAR's computational resources by contacting CISL Customer Support at 303-497-1200 or filling out a ticket request. Quick Start Guide for the Data Analysis and Visualization Clusters is located on this web page: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/dasg/userinfo/quickstart.shtml For other information e.g. Hints, Tips and FAQs on these clusters, please see this web page: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/dasg/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** SUBSCRIPTION INFO ** ______________________________________________________________________________ The Daily Bulletin is published by the Computational and Informational Systems Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. For more information about Daily Bulletin items, send e-mail to consult1 at ucar.edu or call 303-497-1278. To receive the Daily Bulletin via email, subscribe to the Dailyb-doc Mailman list at: http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/dailyb-doc To send announcements to the Daily Bulletin, address them to dailyb at ucar.edu. 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