[Tgcmgroup] tempest decomm

[Ben Foster]

Dear tgcmgroup, correction:

Sorry, Astrid points out that the tempest decomm
has been delayed, see below..

--B


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Ben,
it was delayed.

Astrid


      Tempest Decommsion Update


        Thursday 04/03/08

We are going to delay the decommission of Tempest while we work to move 
the /fis file systems to a location that is accessible by the new 
systems. Once this is complete, we will announce a new decommission date.

Two new systems, gale.scd.ucar.edu and breeze.scd.ucar.edu, are 
currently available for data analysis work. Together these systems have 
twice the memory of Tempest and current /ptmp quotas are 150GB, more 
than twice that of Tempest. An additional two systems, gust.scd.ucar.edu 
and hail.scd.ucar.edu, will be added to the cluster in the next few weeks.

We are working to more tightly intergrate with the supercomputing 
resources as the installation of Bluefire approaches. These systems have 
direct GPFS access to the /ptmp file system on Blueice and all the 
divisional file systems.

Tempest's user home directory will be retained for six months following 
the decommission. Users will need to request their home directory within 
those six months, and specify the CISL machine where they want the 
tarball placed (breeze, gale etc). /ptmp files will "NOT" be backed up. 
Users must save needed /ptmp files themselves by logging on to Tempest 
and copying via scp to gale or breeze etc.

Other, detailed information is available from the getting started 
section on the main page of the DASG web site.

http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/dasg/

If you have further questions, please submit a Trouble Ticket and we'll 
be happy to answer what we can.



Ben Foster wrote:
> Tgcmgroup:
>
> Just a reminder that tempest will be decommissioned during the ML
> shutdown this Saturday. Make sure you have saved anything you need
> from your home and /ptmp directories on tempest. After this machine
> is gone, we can use the gale and breeze systems for post-processing
> and analysis (see my previous mail to the group about these machines).
>
> BTW, availability of the new IBM machine bluefire has been pushed 
> back at least to May.
>
> --Ben
>
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