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• Blue Waters Announcement: Winter Holiday service availability

  Created by: gbauer 2020-12-17 12:52:56 (Channels: general)

  Blue Waters partners;

  NCSA staff will observe the University of Illinois Winter break schedule starting 5pm Wednesday December 23, 2019, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2020. Staff will monitor Blue Waters and periodically check service requests during this time, and respond to issues in a timely manner depending on the nature of the issue.

  For projects that have expired at the end of the year or that have consumed their allocation before then. the noalloc queue is available for those projects. Use the directive #PBS -q noalloc in job scripts to submit to the noalloc queue. For more informatiob see  https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/queues-and-scheduling-policies.

  System utilization sometimes drops over the holidays. Check https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/machine-status for utilization and backfill opportunities. 

  Please send comments or concerns to help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu.

  Season's Greetings from the Blue Waters team!

  
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  Blue Waters partners; NCSA staff will observe the University of Illinois Winter break schedule starting 5pm Wednesday December 23, 2019, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2020. Staff will monitor Blue Waters and periodically check service requests during this time, and respond to issues in a timely...
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