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Monday, April 07, 2014

Today's topics:

Wilson Lab Network Outage: Tuesday, April 8 @ 9:00 AM

There will be a brief network outage (including RedRover & eduroam wireless) in Wilson Lab, starting at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, April 8, and expected to last up to 30 minutes. The purpose of the outage is for CIT to activate a new high-speed connection between Newman and CCC, which will eventually provide 10-gigabit network connectivity among the buildings of CLASSE (currently 1-gigabit).

Say Goodbye: Windows XP, it was nice knowing you!

In case you missed it, support for Windows XP ends April 8th, 2014. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help If you have, or know of any, Windows XP systems that are in your areas, please contact us immediately since we are disabling their network access and / or removing them from service over the next few days.

Service Ticket Feedback Survey

In the interest of providing better service to our users, we are now asking you to rate your experience on each service ticket by taking the following survey: https://cornell.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9zSie8Pl8CSmeiN. Your responses are anonymous, but you may provide a ticket number if you wish. This survey may be used for any ticket, even ones that were closed long ago.

Compute Farm upgrade

The CLASSE GridEngine batch queuing system has been updated and is once again available for use. In addition to improved handling of interactive jobs, the GridEngine now supports batch CUDA jobs.

Please note that the 64-bit architecture is now known as "linux-x64” . Please see see our GridEngine documentation for more information, including instructions for submitting batch, parallel, interactive, and CUDA jobs: https://wiki.classe.cornell.edu/Computing/GridEngine

CUDA development

Initial documentation for developing and running CUDA programs is available at: https://wiki.classe.cornell.edu/Computing/CUDA



General network and server maintenance will occur every Tuesday from 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM. The CLASSE-IT group will always announce any expected disruptions in our NewsLetter and via CLASSE-IT-NEWS-L, but with the size and complexity of our network there is always the potential for something to go wrong. We will do our best to contain all network maintenance and planned outages to Tuesdays from 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM.

Unless other arrangements have been made, CLASSE-managed Windows systems may be updated and rebooted on Tuesday morning at 2:00 AM, so please avoid critical or lengthy operations at that time. For more details, please see SystemExpectations.


Questions or problems? Submit a service request.

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