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System Statistics 49 jobs running, 1 jobs queued 134 nodes, 131 nodes online, 58 nodes used 286 processors, 278 online, 123 used 62 myrinet nodes online, 55 nodes free 44.3% node utilization 44.2% processor utilization Queue Status Job queue is Accepting new jobs Job queue is Processing jobs in queue See the jobs currently in the queue Last updated:  2008-07-25 07:10:02

System News

RTC is back online
posted on 2008-03-15 08:17:26
The maintenance has been completed and the RTC is now accepting jobs. We have upgraded the PVFS shared.scratch filesystem and increased its capacity from 1TB to 5TB as well as increased the aggregated i/o bandwidth to 1GB/sec. The entire cluster was upgraded to the latest patch level for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. We have also added two more quads into the super queue, one with 32GB of RAM. Please refer to our FAQ to find out how to access these resources.

RTC Outage on March 12, 8AM for 72 Hours
posted on 2008-02-27 14:04:43
We will be taking the RTC offline for maintenance on Wednesday March 12th at 8AM. The estimated outage window is 72Hrs. The main purpose of this outage is to upgrade the PVFS shared.scratch filesystem. We will increase its capacity from 1TB to 5TB as well as increase the aggregated I/O bandwidth to 1GB/sec. Routine operating system updates will also take place such as updating the entire cluster to the latest patch level for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The longer queues will start draining this afternoon to allow a safe shutdown on the above mentioned date. Please plan you work accordingly. As always don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or conflicts with this maintenance schedule.

RTC is back online
posted on 2007-09-30 14:03:28
The RTC is back online as of 9/30, 2PM, after a successful relocation of the system to the new Primary Data Center. Please be aware that several changes were made to the system during this maintenance period. Included in these are the addition of new nodes, a new node allocation policy, and a new queue policy. Please take a few minutes to review the following FAQ regarding these changes before you use the RTC: http://rcsg.rice.edu/rtc/docs/pdc_updates.html Please report any problems to the Help Desk.

RTC Status Report, Friday 9/28
posted on 2007-09-28 17:24:32
RTC maintenance continues this evening, Friday 9/28. We expect the RTC to be returned to service this weekend. Please watch this web site and the RTC-INFO mailing list for announcements this weekend.