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Blue Waters Permanent Shutdown Notification

Created by: jenos 2022-01-03 13:36:01 (Channels: mandatory)

Blue Waters Users-

Thank you for being part of the Blue Waters experience- we hope it has served your science well. It is now permanently shutdown.

Blue Waters Project Team
Blue Waters End of Service (12/31/2021) Reminder

Created by: gbauer 2021-12-17 15:41:51 (Channels: mandatory)

Dear Blue Waters Partner -

This is a reminder that Blue Waters will end production at midnight on December 31, 2021. Please make plans now to complete the transfer of your data from Blue Waters prior to December 31, 2021, as we cannot guarantee there will be an extended access grace period after that date. All queued and running jobs will be removed when the system is shutdown (most likely on Jan 3 around noon CT).

Support availability will be very limited after December 23rd due to the holiday break. Please begin making plans now to transfer your data.

Details on data transfer options are posted on the Blue Waters portal at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/data-transfer-doc including use of Globus AWS and Google Drive connectors.

Illinois users, please see https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/illinois-data-transfer for some additional storage options.

Please send your questions to help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu.

Thank you,

The Blue Waters Team

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Dear Blue Waters Partner - This is a reminder that Blue Waters will end production at midnight on December 31, 2021. Please make plans now to complete the transfer of your data from Blue Waters prior to December 31, 2021, as we cannot guarantee there will be an extended access grace period after that date....
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NCSA Operations Update

Created by: bbode 2020-03-18 08:32:01 (Channels: mandatory)

Valued partners and collaborators,

NCSA is doing our part to protect the health and wellbeing of our employees and the community. Therefore, we have taken the necessary steps to help minimize the risk of infection, including transitioning our staff to working remotely. These measures are to protect our team and to practice the social distancing advised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Despite these extraordinary circumstances, NCSA and the National Petascale Computing Facility (NPCF) remain fully operational and will continue to provide resources, services, and research support to our partners. We will adhere to our standard interaction methods, maintenance practices, and schedules. Furthermore, we will continue to monitor and adjust operations so NPCF’s full capabilities remain available. Please contact us for support using the established contacts and channels for your resource needs.

NCSA will follow the remote-work protocol mandated by the University of Illinois until the restrictions are lifted. In the event there is a significant change that affects our ability to provide services, we will be sure to inform our partners.

We are grateful for your understanding, support, and continued scientific partnership during these unprecedented times.

Please contact help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu with questions or concerns.

William Gropp
Director and Chief Scientist, NCSA
Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Valued partners and collaborators, NCSA is doing our part to protect the health and wellbeing of our employees and the community. Therefore, we have taken the necessary steps to help minimize the risk of infection, including transitioning our staff to working remotely. These measures are to protect our team and to...
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Blue Waters Announcement: Nearline Retirement Approaching!

Created by: bbode 2020-03-02 09:28:06 (Channels: mandatory|scheduledoutages)

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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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...
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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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BlueWaters returned to service

Created by: mshow 2019-12-22 23:32:00 (Channels: mandatory|unscheduledoutages)

After a full system reboot and checkout, the system hs been retrned to full service operations
Blue Waters Operations Transitioning

Created by: jenos 2019-12-19 19:03:08 (Channels: mandatory|systemnotices|general|policychange)

Hello Blue Waters partners,

Today marks the conclusion of regular NSF Blue Waters operations and allocations. Allocations ending today will be granted the normal 90 day grace period to transfer data off Blue Waters storage systems. After today, jobs remaining in the queue will be permitted to run but job submission will be disabled for expired projects.

As Blue Waters transitions to support changing workflow needs for the NGA phase of operations, several policies and processes will be adjusted. Though they are detailed in the summary page linked below, additional notices will be issued near key timeframes.

Transition summary: https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/transition

If you have questions about any changes, please submit a service request as normal to help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu, but keep in mind that the upcoming holiday period may not have typical business hour response.

As a final note, the Blue Waters staff has thoroughly enjoyed the challenges, innovations, enthusiasm, and breakthrough science experienced over the last seven years with everyone involved. Best of luck in the next stage of your research!

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Hello Blue Waters partners, Today marks the conclusion of regular NSF Blue Waters operations and allocations. Allocations ending today will be granted the normal 90 day grace period to transfer data off Blue Waters storage systems. After today, jobs remaining in the queue will be permitted to run but job submission...
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Blue Waters returned to service

Created by: mshow 2019-02-24 03:41:58 (Channels: mandatory|unscheduledoutages|systemnotices)

The high-speed network issue on Blue Waters was resolved and the system returned to normal operations at 3:30 AM CT.
Blue Waters returned to full service

Created by: mshow 2018-06-12 10:23:37 (Channels: mandatory|unscheduledoutages|systemnotices)

Blue Waters has returned to full service after recovery from a power event.
Blue Waters system power interruption

Created by: mshow 2018-06-12 04:56:14 (Channels: mandatory|unscheduledoutages|systemnotices)

Thunderstorms have resulted in a power interruption of the BlueWaters System. This outage imacts both the compute nodes and all filesystems. Therefore, a full reboot will be necessary.Return to service is estimated to be approximately 10 am Centeral time.

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