Scheduled maintenance thursday July 1., 08:00-12:00

lsz075 • June 24, 2004

The regatta and linux cluster will be down for maintenance thursday july 1. 08:00-12:00. Running jobs thursday morning will be killed.
The maintenance that will be done is to replace disk cache memory batteries, and do some work on the cooling system in the machine room.

node32 in linux cluster back online

lsz075 • June 15, 2004

The power supply in node32 in the linux cluster failed last week. IBM has replaced it, and the node is now back online.

XL Fortran compiler upgrade

lsz075 • June 14, 2004

The May 2004 XL Fortran V8.1 Compiler and Runtime PTF was installed.

Power outage – machines down

lsz075 • June 4, 2004

On Friday, May 28 at 11:45 both tre.ii.uib.no and fire.ii.uib.no crashed due to power outage (mistake made by electrician in neighbouring machine room that triggered an emergency power stop).

tre.ii.uib.no got back on-line at 17:11, downtime 5 hours, 26 minutes

After reboot 6 nodes on cluster fire.ii.uib.no were down, queueing system was down as well. Monday, May 31 at 20:50 fire.ii.uib.no got back on-line (3 nodes were still down), downtime 81 hours, 5 minutes

Intel compilers upgraded on fire.ii.uib.no

lsz075 • May 3, 2004

The intel fortran and C/C++ compilers were upgraded to the latest releases on the linux cluster. This should fix problems with writing files larger than 2 GB.

intel-icc8-8.0-57
intel-ifort8-8.0-55

M_Map matlab toolbox installed on fire.ii.uib.no

lsz075 • April 30, 2004

The M_Map toolbox with TerrainBase and GSHHS high-resolution coastline database was installed in matlab on the linux cluster. For more information see:

http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/private/mapug.html

http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html

UPS batteries replaced

lsz075 • April 28, 2004

The UPS batteries, and the DC-condensators on the UPS has been replaced. We should now have a fully functional UPS again, giving us 15-30 minutes of battery backed power.

Reprogrammed tape robot call home

lsz075 • April 23, 2004

The tape robots obviously call IBM every now and then to verify that the call home feature is working. IBM had changed their phone number, so this have been failing lately. IBM-support came by today and fixed this both for Para//ab and the informatics.