Hello Blue Waters Partners,
The Blue Waters nearline (tape) subsystem will be permanently shutdown March 31, 2020. This is a hard deadline with no extension possible as NCSA is contractually obligated to remove the controlling software and metadata following the shutdown since we will no longer have the right to use that software. If your team has data on Nearline that you wish to keep, this is your last opportunity to retrieve that data!
Projects that expired in December 2019 are also approaching the end of the 90-day grace period for online data. If you have such a project, the precise end of the grace period is included in emails you will receive specifically for that project. Once the grace period expires, the Lustre /projects/ project space will be removed and accounts (including respective home directories) that are not members of a different, active, project will be removed from the system. Short grace period extensions are possible with a well-justified request made via help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu by the principle investigator for the project.
For data transfer questions with Globus Online please see https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/data-transfer-doc.
For transfers to your academic Google Drive or to an AWS S3 object see https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/data-transfer-doc#googledrive and https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/data-transfer-doc#aws respectively.
The Blue Waters team
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The Blue Waters nearline (tape) subsystem will be permanently shutdown March 31, 2020. This is a hard deadline with no extension possible as NCSA is contractually obligated to remove the controlling software and metadata following the shutdown since we will no longer have the right...
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