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Thursday, Apr 25, 2024: /z/Comp file server outage – RECOVERED 11:00

Posted on April 25, 2024

11:00am. The fileserver for most /z/Comp directories is back up after a recovery from a reboot due to a hardware error.      

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Tue, Apr 23, 2024: /z/Comp file server outage – RECOVERED 11:40

Posted on April 23, 2024

11:00am. The file server for most /z/Comp directories had a hardware error. It is currently rebooting (which can take a while given the size of its file systems). We will add updates to this post. …

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Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 8:00 – File Server Outage – UPDATED 8:45pm

Posted on March 21, 2024

One of the file servers is intermittently getting extremely slow. This will often make desktop machines look like they are locked up. We are investigating this now. We will update this notice when we have …

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Mon, Mar 18, 2024 9:45am – File Server Outage – UPDATED

Posted on March 18, 2024

We are experiencing slowness and communication breaks with one of our file servers used for home directories. We are looking into this now. 10:20am – The service is stable again.

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Planned outage: Sat, Dec 30th, 2023, 8am-Noon – COMPLETED

Posted on December 21, 2023

Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 10:45am. The work has been completed. In order to update some of the power infrastructure in one of our server rooms, there will be a few temporary outages on Saturday, December …

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Aug 26 2023: Default R version update

Posted on August 25, 2023

Starting August 26th, the new default version of R is 4.2.1. If you need to continue to use the previous version, the command R41 will start the previous default.

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Planned Outage: Sat, Aug 12, 2023, Noon to 8:00PM

Posted on August 8, 2023

The main user home directory file server will be getting an urgent update and a reboot on Saturday, August 12th, and will be out from noon to about 2:00pm. This file server also holds many …

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OUTAGE: May 16, 1:48pm, /z/Comp; UPDATE: 4:15pm

Posted on May 16, 2023

As a consequence of yesterday’s instability, the file server that serves /z/Comp is currently rebooting. This can take up to two hours, due to the size of the file systems. 4:15pm. We have identified a …

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OUTAGE: May 15 2023: /z/Comp file server out – UPDATE 9:57

Posted on May 15, 2023

8:40am. There is a hardware fault on the file server which provides most /z/Comp space. We are looking into this now and will update this page as we know more. 9:57am: The file system is …

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OUTAGE: Wed, Apr 5 2023 — /z/Comp file server – UPDATE 2pm

Posted on April 5, 2023

The file server that handles computational workloads has been under severe load the last few days, and has become unstable as a result. We are currently working that machine. We will start a reboot shortly …

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