We are planning a cluster outage for Monday, October 13, 2008 from 10am until noon (this is the first day of fall break). We will use this outage to perform a few minor maintenance tasks as well as to complete some upgrades to our disk storage system that will improve both manageability and scalability. This outage will impact the entire cluster and all running jobs. Please plan your work so that your jobs will complete prior to the start of this outage or so that they can be restarted after the cluster is back online without losing the prior work.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause, but the need to perform certain routine maintenance tasks requires a complete outage once or twice per year. We do not anticipate the need to schedule any additional outages until spring break.
Please send a response if you have any questions or comments.
