Previous messages

• Tue Nov 22 14:20:00 EDT 2018: HPSS back in service
• Tue Nov 22 08:55:00 EDT 2018: HPSS offline for scheduled maintenance
• Tue Nov 20 16:30:00 EDT 2018: HPSS offline on Thursday 9AM for installation of new LTO8 drives in the tape library.
• Tue Oct 9 12:16:00 EDT 2018: BGQ compute nodes are up.
• Sun Oct 7 20:24:26 EDT 2018: SGC and BGQ front end are available, BGQ compute nodes down related to a cooling issue.
• Sat Oct 6 23:16:44 EDT 2018: There were some problems bringing up SGC & BGQ, they will remain offline for now.
• Sat Oct 6 18:36:35 EDT 2018: Electrical work finished, power restored. Systems are coming online.
• July 18, 2018: login.scinet.utoronto.ca is now disabled, GPC $SCRATCH and $HOME are decommissioned.
• July 12, 2018: There was a short power interruption around 10:30 am which caused most of the systems (Niagara, SGC, BGQ) to reboot and any running jobs to fail.
• July 11, 2018: P7's moved to BGQ filesystem, P8's moved to Niagara filesystem.
• May 24, 2018, 9:25 PM EST: The data center is up, and all systems are operational again.
• May 24, 2018, 7:00 AM EST: The data centre is under annual maintenance. All systems are offline. Systems are expected to be back late afternoon today; check for updates on this page.
• May 18, 2018: Announcement: Annual scheduled maintenance downtime: Thursday May 24, starting 7:00 AM
• May 16, 2018: Cooling restored, systems online
• May 16, 2018: Cooling issue at datacentre again, all systems down
• May 15, 2018: Cooling restored, systems coming online
• May 15, 2018: Cooling issue at datacentre, all systems down
• May 4, 2018: HPSS is now operational on Niagara.
• May 3, 2018: Burst Buffer is available upon request.
• May 3, 2018: The Globus endpoint for Niagara is available: computecanada#niagara.
• May 1, 2018: System status moved here.
• Apr 23, 2018 GPC-compute is decommissioned, GPC-storage available until 30 May 2018.
• April 10, 2018: Niagara commissioned.