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Tomorrow, Tuesday March 21st, two user visible changes to the scientific computing environment will be made as part of monthly scheduled maintenance.</div>
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<li><span><span><span class="ui-provider yq b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak ContentPasted0" dir="ltr">The scientific computing database will be down for several hours for upgrades and maintenance. During this time,
from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, attempts to access the tape library via jasmine, or to invoke swif commands, will fail. Once the database work is done and all services resumed, jasmine and swif commands will again function properly.</span></span><br>
</span></li><li><span><span><span class="ui-provider yq b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak ContentPasted0" dir="ltr">At 9:00am changes will be implemented to require access to ifarm and qcdi machines through the scilogin.jlab.org
two-factor login machines. </span></span></span></li></ul>
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In addition to those visible changes, routine software updates will be installed to keep pace with cybersecurity and patching. </div>
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