Work is underway to move the BLAST computer farm (including blast02 and
blast05) in order to clear the SHCB for the new Tier 2 computing facility.
The new space should be ready some time this week and other parties
involved would like to start moving the computers immediately.
Once we start, systems could be offline for up to a week. Individual
computers may be available earlier but will likely be usable only to access
data local to them. Given the problems associated with auto-mounted
filesystems being unavailable, my preference would be to wait until all
systems are online before restoring access.
I had hoped to provide more notice on this but the project went from "no
money, do nothing" to "finish ASAP" very quickly. We are prepared to delay
the move if there is urgent need for access in the immediate future. If
there are individual systems that should have higher priority please let us
know.
---- Brian McAllister Senior Software Engineer mcallister@mit.edu Bates Research & Engineering Center (617) 253-9537 Middleton, MA
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