[Clusterusers] Another power blip at 4:20PM

[Bassam Kurdali]

+1 fix this from the source (the power company I guess?)
It's not just the cluster but also the lab computers going down, causing
occasional lost work + disruption.
If it's ok I'm going to check my home UPSes and see if any have good
batteries and bring them in to protect one or two of the machines in the
drome. 
On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> That's exactly what I'm trying to gauge. I don't know if/when it'll be 
> fixed, but if it is soon, then it will seem like a waste to have spent 
> all that money on batteries. But it might be even less money than that, 
> in which case it would be nice anyway - I'll figure it out next week. I 
> think space of where to put the UPSes is at least as big a problem as 
> anything else :)
>      -Josiah
> 
> 
> On 10/5/13 1:45 AM, Lee Spector wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm inclined to say that reliable power would be more valuable to us now than a few more cores.
> >
> > But really, something strange is going on, and it ought to be found and fixed. If that happens relatively soon then maybe this issue will go away.
> >
> >   -Lee
> >
> > On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Thomas Helmuth wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for working on this Josiah. It's been hard not being able to my longer runs finish. I don't know how the budgets work, but it definitely seems worthwhile.
> >>
> >> -Tom
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <wjerikson at hampshire.edu> wrote:
> >> I think I can buy enough batteries, combined with old but still functional UPSes from elsewhere on campus, to ride the cluster through this stuff for around $2K. We have it in the cluster budget and it seems like maybe it's the best use of those funds? Any thoughts? I'm getting a bit tired of this....
> >>
> >> On the other hand, we have the power company's attention. They were on campus today, and I was asked for a full list of when and where these were occurring, which I provided, and they are looking into it. They're unaware of any issues - so as of now, it still seems that nobody knows why this is happening.
> >>
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