Hydra Status

Hydra has been successfully moved to the new data center.
It will be accessible on Mon Oct 6 by mid day, pending adverse effects of a government shutdown.

During that time all logins will remain disabled,
and there will be no access to any files stored on Hydra.

We are finishing the system validation, hence the need for additional time.
Most data have been migrated from the old GPFS to the new one - that is 4 to 10 times faster - and the NetApp was fitted with new disks.
IBM came to swap a component of our new GPFS, but could not get it to work. We reverted to the working hardware, but this set us one day back.

We should be able to reopen Hydra with a slightly reduced capacity (i.e., not all compute nodes up yet) on Mon Oct 6st by mid day.
We will then get the Globus services running and the dedicated RStudio server up.
The nodes with GPUs will require additional software re-configuration.
We're getting there.
Getting there!

As you are most likely aware, a government shutdown is looming, but SI should be able to stay open an extra week. Past that, we do not know yet how this will impact Hydra.

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