Genepool Featured Announcements
New Hardware to be Integrated by Jan 7, 2013
December 27, 2012 by Kirsten Fagnan | 0 Comments
The new hardware that has been tested through phoebe will be available on Genepool no later than January 7, 2013. The following compute power will be added to Genepool: 220 nodes with 16 physical cores and 120G of memory; 5 nodes with 32 physical cores and 500GB of memory; 2 nodes with 32 physical cores and 1000GB of memory.
Genepool Quarterly Maintenance
November 7, 2012 by Kirsten Fagnan | 0 Comments
The Genepool cluster will be offline for maintenance next Tuesday, November 13th from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm (PST). During this time staff will upgrade the Genepool compute nodes to Debian 6. Also, the firmware for /projectb and /house will be updated. /projectb will be unavailable from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm (PST) and /house will be unavailable from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm (PST). Any webservices or workflows that depend on these file systems will also be unavailable. Please plan your work accordingly.
Rolling Debian 6 Updates for Interactive Machines and Web Servers 11/2 - 11/9
November 7, 2012 | 0 Comments
The JGI computational resources are being updated to Debian 6 this week and next. Because of the staff-intensive work required to update the login nodes, interactive nodes, and the web servers, these machines will be updated between 11/02 and 11/09. The genepool cluster nodes will be updated during the scheduled quarterly maintenance on 11/13 between 7:00AM and 7:00PM.
Debian 6 testing on Phoebe - complete by Nov 1st.
October 1, 2012 by Katie Antypas | 0 Comments
NERSC is planning to install Debian 6 as the OS on Genepool at the November quarterly maintenance. To prepare for this, all users need run and test pipelines on Phoebe. A testing schedule has been put on a google doc here:
Rolling gpint upgrades 10/2-10/10
October 1, 2012 by Katie Antypas | 0 Comments
NERSC needs to update-and-correct the system software installed on the gpint machines. To achieve this, we need to schedule downtime for each of the gpints. The downtime will last from 9:00AM - 5:00PM on the scheduled date. One purpose of this work is to adjust the installed Debian 5 software packages to bring all genepool and genepool-attached systems to a single common OS image. This will help to ensure that installed software on genepool will work correctly on the gpints - there are several cases in open tickets where software works on the genepool login nodes but fails on the gpints; the will also facilitate easier maintenance of the gpints. Another purpose is to perform some hardware maintenance of the gpints where required.
