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NCSA Intel 64 Cluster Abe Retirement Note |
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 NCSA's Help Desk is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year: March 25, 2011 Dear colleagues: On April 15, 2011 NCSA's Dell Cluster, Abe, will be retired after nearly 4 years of productive service to the Illinois and TeraGrid communities.This notice is to inform you of the details surrounding the final shutdown of Abe. A web page with the latest information is available at: NCSA Intel 64 Cluster Abe Retirement The short notice trade in of Abe is part of a plan that replaces the aging Abe/Lincoln with the latest in hardware from Dell and NVIDIA for a new GPU cluster. This required the retirement of Abe to be moved up from the original July 31, 2011 date. We will do all we can to keep the impact to your projects as minimal as possible. Further information about the new GPU cluster will be distributed shortly as that machine will be available by June 30, 2011. The options for the TRAC awarded TeraGrid users who utilize only Abe of the AQS (Abe, Queenbee, Steele) resource and who are not up for renewal by July 1st, 2011 may move their remaining allocations to primarily Lonestar (TACC) or Trestles (SDSC). Those who use QueenBee (LONI) and/or Steele (Purdue) need not move their allocation at this time. Those who utilize Abe only and their allocation expires after April 15, but before June 30, 2011 may remain on the QueenBee/Steele resources of AQS or request transfer to the resources listed above. Other TeraGrid resources requested will be evaluated on availability and need. The options for the TeraGrid Startup awards on the AQS (Abe, Queenbee, Steele) 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 QueenBee if possible. If not, a transfer to one of the other TeraGrid resources may be requested. The transfer ratios will follow those presented at SU Conversion Calculator. The batch queues on Abe will be set to drain by 11:59 PM, April 14, 2011. After this time, batch jobs that remain in the queues will not be executed. User access to the Abe login nodes will be available till May 15th to allow for data retrieval. Data remaining in the scratch and projects directories after the 15th will be deleted. Data residing in NCSA's mass storage environment will be available until August 15, 2011. This data must be moved or you may request a separate non- computational allocation on the NCSA storage system.
Abe batch queues close: April 15, 2011 If you require assistance in migrating your codes or data, please contact the HPC Consulting Office at 217-244-1144 or by e-mail at consult@ncsa.illinois.edu. For allocations questions or questions about requesting a transfer, contact allocations@teragrid.org or 217-244-0635. We will be processing questions and requests as quickly as possible and thank you in advance for your understanding. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Mike Pflugmacher, Assistant Director of Computing and Data Management, by phone at 217-244-1337 or by email at mikep@ncsa.illinois.edu.
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