<html><head></head><body><div>I'm fine to wait till Jan too. I was more thinking of pushing some renders since other people might not be using the cluster over the hols, not for a specific deadline.</div><div>cheers</div><div>B</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 10:21 -0500, Thomas Helmuth wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Josiah,<br><br></div>As far as I know, neither Lee nor I plan on using cluster for GP runs over the break. On the other hand, we are working on some papers with deadlines in late January that have a bunch of data on fly that we'll need. Will we not even be able to access that data? That could be a problem.<br><br></div>Basically, I don't think we'll need tractor or access to the nodes, but it would be good to be able to access and gather data. If that's not possible, it's not a huge deal since we have some initial data, but we'd need access to it ASAP after break.<br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div>Tom<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjerikson@hampshire.edu" target="_blank">wjerikson@hampshire.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hey folks,<br>
I'm trying to get an idea of how much people were planning on using<br>
the cluster over the holidays, i.e. how much effort I should put into<br>
this. Are there folks who were planning to do important work over the<br>
break whose plans will be totally screwed up if it's not back until<br>
after the new year?<br>
I will come in tomorrow and probably be able to get it back up<br>
anyway, just want to know what kind of priority to give it in case of<br>
mishap.<br>
Thanks and happy holidays!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> -Josiah<br>
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On 12/22/15, 8:47 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:<br>
> I got some time this morning and came in on a vacation day...<br>
><br>
> After some mucking around with BIOS and CPU's and memory config, things<br>
> deteriorating quickly...<br>
><br>
> Well, the machine won't even post now, so I'll have to move everything<br>
> over to a new machine and get a new license file from Pixar. I'll try to<br>
> get this done tomorrow morning, but this may mean that the cluster will<br>
> be down until January if everything doesn't go smoothly.<br>
><br>
> Apologies!<br>
> -Josiah<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 12/21/15 9:28 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:<br>
>> ...or not. It appears to be happening again. I'm out tomorrow, but I<br>
>> should be in briefly on Wednesday and will make another attempt.<br>
>> -Josiah<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 12/21/15, 11:04 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:<br>
>>> One of the power supplies was probably bad (dim/flickering lights, and<br>
>>> Google searches had other people experiencing this problem with a bad<br>
>>> power supply). I replaced it with a spare I had sitting around (thanks<br>
>>> Mt. Holyoke)! and hopefully that will be the end of that. Of course, it<br>
>>> could be something else too :)<br>
>>> For now, fly's back up. Hopefully for good, but no guarantees.<br>
>>> -Josiah<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On 12/21/15 10:35 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:<br>
>>>> Well, it just kernel panicked. Neat. That's new. So it's down now until<br>
>>>> I get it back up :) I'll keep you updated...<br>
>>>> -Josiah<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On 12/21/15 10:08 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:<br>
>>>>> Hello all,<br>
>>>>> I rebooted fly again - it is not fixed yet, though it is up and<br>
>>>>> running currently. I will probably take it down later today to try<br>
>>>>> removing one of the CPU's to see if it is the problem. This should<br>
>>>>> result in less than 10 minutes of downtime, and jobs should resume where<br>
>>>>> they left off, so no need to hold off launching renders or whatever. My<br>
>>>>> current theory is that CPU #2 is faulty. It could also be a bad power<br>
>>>>> supply. I'll keep you updated.<br>
>>>>><br>
<br>
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Wm. Josiah Erikson<br>
Head, Systems and Networking<br>
</span><span class="im HOEnZb">Hampshire College<br>
Amherst, MA 01002<br>
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