[intrepid-notify] ALCF Weekly Updates - May 24

[ALCF User Services]

*** Holiday Lab Closure May 28: Limited Support, No Routine Maintenance ***
Argonne National Laboratory will be closed Monday, May 28, 2012, for the Memorial Day holiday. All ALCF systems will be online and accessible during the closure, but support will be limited. There will be no preventive maintenance on Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday. The next preventive maintenance will be Monday, June 4. Please contact support at alcf.anl.gov with any questions or concerns. 

*** Upcoming Changes to 4K and 8K Block Geometries on Intrepid ***
Starting on May 27, 2012, some 4K and 8K Intrepid jobs may run on newly defined blocks with different geometries. Please watch for details coming soon. 

*** /intrepid-fs0 Near Capacity ***
The /intrepid-fs0 filesystem, used by Intrepid, Challenger, and Eureka, is near capacity. Please remove any unneeded data, or transfer it offsite or to tape archive (and then delete it). Keep in mind that performance suffers when the filesystem is very full, and jobs cannot run if the filesystem fills completely. Please contact support at alcf.anl.gov for help transferring or archiving data.

*** Reminder: Intrepid and Challenger /home Directories Mounted Read-Only on I/O Nodes ***
Please remember that, as of earlier this year, Intrepid and Challenger /home directories are mounted read-only on the I/O nodes. When you need to write, please do so only to intrepid-fs0 and intrepid-fs1. For details on ALCF data storage policies, please visit: http://www.alcf.anl.gov/resource-guides/data-policy

*** Important Dates ***
June 27 - INCITE Open Call ends: https://hpc.science.doe.gov/allocations/calls/incite2013