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The Dell Intel 64 Cluster Abe will be retired from service on April 15, 2011 (retirement notification).

Important dates

April 15, 2011: Batch queues closed
May 15, 2011: Access to Abe login nodes, home, scratch and projects filesystems removed.

Information for TeraGrid Users

Abe is co-allocated with LONI QueenBee and Purdue Steele systems (AQS resource). QueenBee will be available until July 31, 2011 and Steele until July 2013.

TRAC awarded projects that utilize only Abe of the AQS resource and are not up for renewal by July 1, 2011 may move their remaining allocations primarily to Lonestar (TACC) or Trestles (SDSC). Those who use Queen Bee and/or Steele need not move their allocation at this time. Projects that utilize Abe only and their expiration date is after April 15 but before June 30, 2011 may remain on the Queen Bee/Steele resources of AQS or request a transfer to the resources listed above. Other TeraGrid resources requested will be evaluated on availability and need.

Startup awards on the AQS resource that expire after July 31, 2011 may move their remaining allocations to Steele (Purdue), Lonestar (TACC), or Trestles (SDSC). For those awards that expire before July 31, please utilize Steele or Queen Bee if possible. If not, a transfer to one of the remaining TeraGrid resources may be requested.

Allocations on the NCSA Mass Storage System (MSS) will retain their expiration date. For continued access to MSS beyond the current expiration date, you may request a independent MSS allocation via POPS for resource NCSA Tape Storage.

NCSA Local Users

Please contact the NCSA Consulting Office at consult@ncsa.illinois.edu (217-244-1144).

Information for users of third-party Applications Software

Please contact the respective software coordinators for assistance on transitioning from Abe.

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Chemistry & Biology chemist@ncsa.illinois.edu
Structural Mechanics csm@ncsa.illinois.edu
Computational Fluid Dyamics flow@ncsa.illinois.edu
Math mathsoft@ncsa.illinois.edu
Visualizationvis@ncsa.illinois.edu

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