Effective 5 hours ago: Greetings Mercury users, ** REMINDER ** The rebuild of Mercury3 and Mercury4 will begin in about one hour. Please log off of these machines if you are on and log in to Mercury5 and Mercury6, both of which are available through the mercury.uvic.ca alias. ** Original Message ** We are now poised to make a full transition to Scientific Linux 4 as the Mercury cluster's operating system. Previously we converted some and then all of the compute nodes to this operating system, but the head nodes except for Mercury7 have retained Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. We are now going to reinstall two of the head nodes with Scientific Linux 4 to bring the cluster more inline with our users' needs. Currently, Mercuries 3 through 6 run RHEL3, with Mercury 7 running Scientific Linux 4. Over the next week we will be making Mercury3 and Mercury4 SL4 boxes. Additionally we will be updating the load-balancing alias mercury.uvic.ca to point at the new default. A more thorough description as well as a timeline is available at http://rcf.uvic.ca/transition. I invite you to have a look and let me know if you have any concerns. A brief overview of the timeline: 23 July (today): Reducing the load-balancing pool referenced by mercury.uvic.ca to only include Mercury5 and Mercury6. 25 July: Remove Mercury3 and Mercury4 from service, re-install with Scientific Linux 4, and make available for testing. Also, create load-balancing pool consisting of ...
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