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• Blue Waters Nearline Phase Out

  Created by: bbode 2020-01-28 10:09:30 (Channels: mandatory)

  Hello Blue Waters Partners,

      This is a reminder that the Blue Waters nearline (tape) system will be permanantly shutdown and dismantled on 4/1/2020 (no extension is possible). A rush on data retrieval is expected as the end of nearline service approaches which will be limited by the retrieval throughput of nearline. Thus, if you have data on nearline that you wish to keep you must transfer it to other storage ASAP. 

      All projects that expired on 12/19/2019 are currently in their 90 day grace period. At the end of that grace period, those projects will be deactivated. As part of that process, any accounts that no longer are part of an active project will also be closed and data associated with those accounts removed. If your project/account is expired please ensure any data that you want keep is transferred to other storage off of Blue Waters ASAP.

  Please mail help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu with questions, problems, or anticipated problems.

  The Blue Waters Team

  
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  Hello Blue Waters Partners,     This is a reminder that the Blue Waters nearline (tape) system will be permanantly shutdown and dismantled on 4/1/2020 (no extension is possible). A rush on data retrieval is expected as the end of nearline service approaches which will be limited by the retrieval throughput...
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