COSMOS News Bulletins

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Please refer to the new COSMOS web pages for the most up to date information.

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This web page provides the most up-to-date information on the operational status of COSMOS and future downtimes. If COSMOS systems is unreachable, Consult this page to find out why.

Current operational status

Please notify cosmos_sys immediately (telephone 01223 339740) if you find the system unresponsive despite the information on this page.

Scheduled downtimes:

Regular maintenance timeslot

Every week 9am-5pm Wednesday. (not required to happen every week)

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Exceptional maintenances

-*- 27 February 2013 -*-

• DONE: 7pm ~ 12pm: all systems taken offline for maintenance, to upgrade the home directories NFS server
  
• DONE: 12pm - 2am: compute systems fixed
  
• in progress: 12pm ~ 5am: essential backups are performed
  
• 5am ~ 7am: NFS server upgrade
  

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COSMOS systems in brief:

• cosmos -- login/compute node. SGI Altix UV1000:
  12/30gb cores/mem system/login, 372/930gb cores/mem compute
• universe -- login/compute node. SGI Altix UV1000:
  12/30gb cores/mem system/login, 372/930gb cores/mem compute


• cosmos2 -- compute node. SGI Altix UV2000:
  16/120gb cores/mem system, 1840/14000gb cores/mem compute
• cosmic -- login/development node. SGI Altix UV2000:
  16/120gb cores/mem system/login, 64/480gb cores/mem compute, 2x NVidia GPU, 4x Intel Xeon Phi


• oberon -- Storage Server (NFS: home,scratch) and MOAB Server. SGI XE270:
  8/32gb cores/mem system