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Dear Users,</div>
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Services have been <b>partially restored</b>, and recovery efforts are ongoing.</div>
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<b>Current status / in-progress work:</b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" role="presentation"><b>qcd16p</b> and
<b>qcd18p</b> will remain down while support services are restored.</div>
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<b>patched and rebooted at 10:00 PM</b>.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;" role="presentation"><b>Farm node recovery</b> is ongoing and will continue as systems come back online.</div>
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We will provide additional updates as progress continues and services are fully restored.</div>
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Thank you for your patience.</div>
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Best regards,<br>
Wesley, on behalf of the Scientific Computing Operations Team</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 15, 2025 1:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wesley Moore via Jlab-scicomp-briefs <jlab-scicomp-briefs@jlab.org>; lqcd-users@jlab.org <lqcd-users@jlab.org>; epsci@jlab.org <epsci@jlab.org>; Wesley Moore <wmoore@jlab.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: December 17 Compute Cluster Power Outage</font>
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Dear Users,</div>
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This is a gentle reminder of the <b>planned compute cluster outage on December 17</b>, beginning at
<b>6:00 AM</b>, to support contractor work installing new PDUs. Please see previous email for details.</div>
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<b>Please plan accordingly and ensure any critical work is completed ahead of the outage. As always, we will prioritize restoring core production services as quickly as possible once power is restored.</b></div>
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Thank you for your understanding.</div>
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Best regards,<br>
Wesley, on behalf of the Scientific Computing Operations Team</div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Jlab-scicomp-briefs <jlab-scicomp-briefs-bounces@jlab.org> on behalf of Wesley Moore via Jlab-scicomp-briefs <jlab-scicomp-briefs@jlab.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 12, 2025 9:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wesley Moore via Jlab-scicomp-briefs <jlab-scicomp-briefs@jlab.org>; lqcd-users@jlab.org <lqcd-users@jlab.org>; epsci@jlab.org <epsci@jlab.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Jlab-scicomp-briefs] December 17 Compute Cluster Power Outage</font>
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Dear Users,</div>
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On <b>December 17th</b>, there will be a <b>power outage affecting all compute clusters</b> to allow a contractor to install new PDUs. The outage window will begin at
<b>6:00 AM</b>. Due to the nature of the work, we can only provide a general timeframe, and we expect the interruption to last
<b>most of the day</b>. Full recovery time is still <b>to be determined</b>.</div>
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As always, we will prioritize restoring core production services first so jobs can resume as quickly as possible.</div>
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<b>Affected services include, but are not limited to:</b></div>
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Tape library</li></ul>
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<b>Systems expected to be unaffected by the outage:</b></div>
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Lustre filesystems</li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Work disk filesystems</li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
code.jlab.org and associated runners</li></ul>
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To reduce the impact on users, we will keep <b>Maintenance Day (December 16th)</b> very light to help ensure no user-facing disruptions to running jobs ahead of the outage.</div>
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We will provide updates as more information becomes available.</div>
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Best regards,<br>
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<b>Wesley, on behalf of the Scientific Computing Operations Team</b></div>
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