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Systems running, but under maintenance
14 MAR

Systems running, but under maintenance

We implemented a temporary modification to the mimer storage system, which, hopefully, will keep the system available while we are investigating the problem.

Hardware problems, mimer and gorm down
14 MAR

Hardware problems, mimer and gorm down

We experienced repeated crashes of our storage servers, which export the /home file system on gorm and the file system /mnt/oldjesshome on jess. As a consequence, it...

Crash of storage system old-mimer
10 MAR

Crash of storage system old-mimer

We experienced a serious crash of our storage system old-mimer yesterday night, affecting both clusters jess and gorm. Connection was restored for jess shortly before midnight...

Storage upgrade finished
07 MAR

Storage upgrade finished

We successfully completed upgrading of storage for the file systems mimer and aiolos.

Upgrading aiolos file system
07 MAR

Upgrading aiolos file system

We experience problems adding the new disks for the file system /mnt/aiolos. We are in contact with DDN support.

Storage added to mimer
02 MAR

Storage added to mimer

We added 20 disks to mimer. We will add 80 disks to aiolos soon - the formatting of these disks is still running. We expect the disks to be ready tomorrow. Another 20 disks...

Storage back and jobs running again
28 FEB

Storage back and jobs running again

Our storage system is back on-line and jobs are executed again. Due to an accident, the job queue on jess was cleared. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Outage of storage system
28 FEB

Outage of storage system

Our consultant from DDN arrived on campus. Unfortunately, it is not possible to add the new enclosures to the storage system without shutting the controllers off. We...

Queues on jess and gorm stopped
28 FEB

Queues on jess and gorm stopped

Execution of jobs on gorm and jess is temporarily suspended for a service window. We will upgrade the cluster storage and may need to unmount some file systems. Jobs...

Service announcement
17 FEB

Service announcement

During the period from Feb 28 to March 2 we will add new storage to aiolos. As part of this task we may need to shut down the entire cluster storage system. If this is...

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