Messages & Announcements

  • 2011-06-06:  PRAIRIEFIRE: Outage rescheduled from June 7th to June 8th
    Category:  Maintenance

    PRAIRIEFIRE will be shutdown on June 8th in order to PRAIRIEFIRE will be shutdown to install software related to recently added Infiniband hardware.


    PRAIRIEFIRE was scheduled to be shutdown on June 7th. Due to the system administrator's schedule, the shutdown will be moved to June 8th at approximately 10:00am. The cluster should be available by noon. All running jobs will be stopped.

    ...Tom

    Tom Harvill
    tharvill@unl.edu
    2-5660

  • 2011-06-02:  PRAIRIEFIRE: Shutdown planned for June 7
    Category:  Maintenance

    PRAIRIEFIRE outage scheduled June 7


    PRAIRIEFIRE will be shutdown (all jobs stopped) on Tuesday June 7. A new OFED stack will be installed. The outage will occur sometime around 10:00am and be finished before noon.

    ..Tom

    Tom Harvill
    2-5660
    tharvill@unl.edu

  • 2011-05-13:  PRAIRIEFIRE: Shutdown planned for Monday, May 16th
    Category:  General Announcement

    PRAIRIEFIRE will be shutdown in order to facilitate the installation of new hardware on Monday, May 16th at approximately 11:00am.


    In order to facilitate new hardware installation, PRAIRIEFIRE will be shutdown on Monday, May 16th at approximately 11:00am. We expect this shutdown to last no more than 2 hours.

  • 2011-04-27:  Firefly available for use
    Category:  Maintenance

    Firefly is now available for use. Firmware patches and updates to worker nodes completed successfully. During this outage, running jobs were terminated as this outage involved a full cluster shutdown. Please login and resubmit your terminated jobs.


    Firefly is now available for use. Firmware patches and updates to worker nodes completed successfully. During this outage, running jobs were terminated as this outage involved a full cluster shutdown. Please login and resubmit your terminated jobs.

  • 2011-04-27:  Firefly: Scheduled downtime for maintenance April 27, 2011
    Category:  Maintenance

    Firefly is scheduled for a downtime this Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in order to apply firmware patches to our Panasas storage, and update the worker node images. This outage will result in job cancellations starting from 10:00 AM lasting until 5:00 PM.

    If you are up against a urgent deadline and cannot afford to lose your existing work, during this outage, please let us know by 5:00 PM Tuesday, April 26, 2011 and we will try our best to make accommodations. Please contact us hcc-support@unl.edu.


    Firefly is scheduled for a downtime this Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in order to apply firmware patches to our Panasas storage, and update the worker node images. This outage will result in job cancellations starting from 10:00 AM lasting until 5:00 PM.

    If you are up against a urgent deadline and cannot afford to lose your existing work, during this outage, please let us know by 5:00 PM Tuesday, April 26, 2011 and we will try our best to make accommodations. Please contact us hcc-support@unl.edu.