Fimm upgrade June 9th

Fimm will be upgraded from Rocks 4.3 to Rocks 5.1 on June 9th at 08:00. This includes an upgrade from CentOS 4.6 to CentOS 5.3. All programs should be recompiled after the upgrade. Current jobs in the idle queue which will not be able to finish in time will not start. These must probably be resubmitted after the upgrade.

Update: we started fimm update at 9:00, expected down time is until tomorrow 22:00.

Update: 9th June 23:05 fimm login node is available for login. Fimm is not ready to receive jobs yet. We will continue tomorrow.

Update : 10th June 06:40 All I/O nodes are updated, We are currently working on queue migration from old cluster, estimated completion of update is before 12:00 today.

Update : 11th June 14:00 We currently still working on file system issue, New estimated completion time of fimm update is tonight 22:00.Sorry for inconvenience.

Update : 11th June 14:45 Fimm login node and all file system is available again. We are working on queuing system.

Update : 11th June 21:30 Fimm login node and file systems are up. We are currently running some online file systems checks and working on getting the queuing system to work correctly. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause you.

Update : 12th June 17:00 Fimm is updated to new Cent OS 5.3 final, queuing system is starting to receive jobs, currently we are installing new software. All the user program/code has to be recompiled.
some user specific software will be installed according to the request, you can send email to support-uib@notur.no to request new software installation.

We improved module function on fimm, according to basic compiler you already loaded in your environment, if you load some other software module, module will load right version(compiler) itself.

We will installing missing software, and will complete it as soon as possible, we are sorry for all inconvenience, and will be appreciated your patience during the software install.

If you encounter any problem , please contact us by email to support-uib@notur.no.