Scheduled Maintenance for Omega/HEP

Monday, February 2, 2015 - 12:00am

The Omega/HEP clusters will be unavailable from Mon 16-Feb-2015 at 8:00AM thru Wed 18-Feb-2015 at 5:00PM EST for scheduled maintenance. Work includes the following:

  • Infiniband network upgrades
  • glibc GHOST network security patch for Linux
  • storage hardware maintenance
  • cluster storage performance tuning
  • new “phitest” job queue created for testing Intel Xeon Phi accelerator hardware
  • access to Grace cluster storage from Omega
  • remote file transfer for Grace cluster storage is now available via globus.org
  • remote desktop pilot kicked off