Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing - System News

Arminus not generally available until 19th of september

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:23:53 +0200

The arminius cluster is locked for a large benchmark until 19th of september. Therefore only the frontends are available to all our arminius users. Jobs can't be submitted through openCCS because the resource management system is shutdown for the benchmark.

Campus wide network problems

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:50:29 +0200

Due to campus wide network problems central services (LDAP/AFS/etc) were not fully functional. This effected our systems. Since 06:00pm 31.08.2011 the problem should be resolved.

Network problems (solved)

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:34:43 +0100

Our university connection to the DFN faces some problems. The university network operators (IMT) try to solve the problem.

ARMINIUS Online Again

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:44:00 +0100

We finished the hardware and software of the ARMINIUS cluster. The system is available again from now on.

Website Upgrade

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:48:00 +0100

Due to an internal system upgrade our news may be not reachable temporarily.

ARMINIUS maintenance

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:39:50 +0200

Starting on September 13th the Arminius cluster will we unavailable for a longer time. The cluster hardware and software will be updated. The maintenance is scheduled for 2 weeks. Our users will be informed when the cluster is available again.

ARMINIUS offline 11.08.2010, 08:20 - 14:20

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:34:00 +0200

Due to a power failure in the building

Power Supply Failure

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:02:05 +0200

The following systems are not available due to a power failure in our building: BisGRID and HTC
UPDATE: Systems are available again

DNS errors (solved)

pc2-gurus@uni-paderborn.de — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:58:00 +0200

Update: According to news sources the DeNIC servers are restoring operations. If you still encounter problems accessing our systems please contact PC�-gurus.

The servers for the .de domain do not work properly. At 14:56 CEST a news messages states that _all_ server of the DeNIC Registrar are not working or delivering wrong results.

Our users may face problems accessing our systems and resources from outside the uni-paderborn.de domain and network.

Here the link to the news flash: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DNS-Fehler-legen-Domain-de-lahm-999068.html

Network interruption (solved)

pc2-gurus@uni-paderborn.de — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:56:00 +0200

This morning we were faced with serious network problems. After some debugging the problem could be tracked down to a broken update file of our HA-firewall. All problems should be fixed and all systems and services are working normally since 11:30 today.