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One of the switches has failed on fimm. Because the file-servers were connected to this switch the filesystems went down.
We have now re-routed the fileservers and frontend to one of the other switches and changed the switch-interconnect. Most of fimm is now back up again, including filesystems, but jobs have failed due to missing filesystems.

Due to a necessary re-configuration of the power in the machine room, there will be a downtime of fimm cluster plus filesystems (/migrate, /bcmhsm, /bjerknes*, as well as fimm filesystems /work, /work2, /home).
All running jobs will of course be killed when the nodes are shut down.

The planned downtime is on Monday November 12th from 09:00 to 14:00. It *may* be somewhat shorter if all goes well.

Questions can be sent to support-uib@notur.no

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause you.

Update, Mon. 12th 14:50: fimm is now back up again. In addition to the power downtime we did a necessary kernel and gpfs upgrade.

The scheduled maintenance of the fimm cluster is now (mostly) complete. Please note the following changes:

- Cluster is now running Rocks 4.3 which is based on CentOS 4.5
- Login to fimm.bccs.uib.no now ends up on one of the compute nodes acting as a login node. Currently this is called compute-1-14.
- Compilers are upgraded to Intel 10.0 and PGI 7.0
- Totalview is upgraded to 8.2
- MPI libraries are upgraded and located in /local
- Several libraries and programs in /local is upgraded

All jobs that were waiting on the old queue need to be submitted again into the new queue after the upgrade.

Send questions to support-uib@notur.no

The IBM p690 Regatta tre.bccs.uib.no / tre.ii.uib.no will be shut down and decommissioned in the morning of Monday October 1st 2007 at 08:00.

All jobs must be finished, and all data and personal files must be copied out of the machine before this time. The only exception would of course be data on external disk like /migrate, /net/bcmhsm and /net/bjerknes*.

Any questions regarding this can be sent to support-uib@notur.no.