Lonestar5 User News
Lonestar5 Degraded, Thursday 4 March 2021 18:57 CST / CDT
Posted by Alex Ferrier on Mar 4, 2021 7:03:38 PM
Lonestar5 has had a hardware failure that's impacting some core functionality. Administrators are working on restoring services as quickly as possible.
Updated on Mar 4, 2021 9:09:23 PM
LS5 is now back in production and queues have been reopened.
Updated on Mar 4, 2021 7:06:57 PM
Lonestar5 is now in unscheduled maintenance. Administrators are working to restore the system as soon as possible.
Original Posting
Lonestar5 has had a hardware failure that's impacting some core functionality. Administrators are working on restoring services as quickly as possible.
Lonestar5 Maintenance Tuesday 23 February 2021
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Feb 8, 2021 10:17:31 AM
Lonestar5 will not be available from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (CST) on Tuesday, 23 February 2021. Hardware maintenance will be performed during this time.
Updated on Feb 23, 2021 4:49:33 PM
LS5 is back in production and the queues are open.
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Lonestar5 will not be available from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (CST) on Tuesday, 23 February 2021. Hardware maintenance will be performed during this time.
Queues down on all Large Scale Systems Monday 15 February 2021
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Feb 15, 2021 11:00:35 AM
Due to the recent state of emergency in the City of Austin due to extreme weather and the impact it is having on the power in Austin, TACC is closing all queues on all Large Scale Systems. This includes Frontera, Stampde2, Lonestar5, Longhorn, and all other TACC resources. Queues will re-open as...
Updated on Feb 19, 2021 3:32:48 PM
All TACC large scale production systems have resumed full operations after powering down and load shedding to help with the Texas power grid emergency.
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Stockyard Status Wednesday 27 January 2021
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Jan 27, 2021 11:03:51 AM
We're noticing performance issues with Stockyard and have closed queues on Frontera, Lonestar5, Stampede2, and Maverick2 while attempting to recover. Running jobs not using Stockyard (/work) will not be impacted. Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal....
Updated on Jan 27, 2021 11:55:27 AM
Stockyard recovery process has been completed and queues have been opened.
Original Posting
We're noticing performance issues with Stockyard and have closed queues on Frontera, Lonestar5, Stampede2, and Maverick2 while attempting to recover. Running jobs not using Stockyard (/work) will not be impacted.
Matlab unavailable on all TACC clusters (Frontera/Stampede2/Lonestar5/Maverick2) on Thurs 28 January 2021 due to license maintenance.
Posted by Alex Ferrier on Jan 26, 2021 6:02:52 PM
Matlab may be unavailable on all TACC clusters (Frontera/Stampede2/Lonestar5/Maverick2) on on Thursday, January 28 from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST. The license service may be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance as licenses are updated for the 2021 calendar year. Please submit any...
Matlab may be unavailable on all TACC clusters (Frontera/Stampede2/Lonestar5/Maverick2) on on Thursday, January 28 from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST. The license service may be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance as licenses are updated for the 2021 calendar year.
Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.
Emergency Network Maintenance Friday, 22 January 2021
Posted by Mark Brueschke on Jan 22, 2021 1:43:58 PM
Emergency firewall maintenance is being carried out, the process should be brief with all services restored quickly.
Updated on Jan 22, 2021 2:53:54 PM
Firewall maintenance is complete as of 2:50 PM.
Original Posting
Emergency firewall maintenance is being carried out, the process should be brief with all services restored quickly.
Upcoming TACC Training Short Courses - February and March 2021
Posted by Jason Allison on Jan 21, 2021 9:21:44 AM
We are pleased to announce the following training courses being held via webcast during the months of February and March 2021: - Introduction to Linux - February 10th, 2021, 1pm - 4pm CT - C++ for C Programmers - February 18th, 2021, 9am - 3pm CT - MPL Object-Oriented Interface to MPI - February...
- C++ for C Programmers - February 18th, 2021, 9am - 3pm CT
- MPL Object-Oriented Interface to MPI - February 25th, 2021, 9am - 12pm CT
- Introduction to Machine Learning at TACC - March 5th, 2021, 9am - 3pm CT
- Introduction to Deep Learning at TACC - March 12th, 2021, 9am - 3pm CT
TACC $WORK File System (Stockyard) is Offline - Thurs 14 Jan 2021
Posted by Alex Ferrier on Jan 14, 2021 9:13:50 PM
Stockyard ($work) is has experienced a failure and is unavailable right now. Admins are working to resolve the issue.
Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.
https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting
Updated on Jan 14, 2021 9:57:45 PM
The issue with the Stockyard filesystem has been resolved and queues have been opened.
Original Posting
Stockyard ($work) is has experienced a failure and is unavailable right now. Admins are working to resolve the issue.
Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User Portal.
https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-consulting
Lonestar5 Status Thursday 7 January 2021
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Jan 7, 2021 1:29:24 PM
Lonestar5 is currently experiencing a scheduler issue and admins are working to resolve the issue.
Updated on Jan 7, 2021 4:10:17 PM
Original Posting
Lonestar5 is currently experiencing a scheduler issue and admins are working to resolve the issue.
TACC Outage December 31 2020
Posted by Alex Ferrier on Dec 31, 2020 9:58:40 PM
TACC's datacenter has had a power event that's impacting multiple core systems. Queues on all of the Large Scale Systems will remain down while assessing the impact and recovering. Admins are working to restore services as soon as possible. Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User...
Updated on Jan 1, 2021 6:24:06 PM
The Lonestar5 issue related to the power event has been resolved and queues have been opened. Please contact us via a ticket if you see any further problems on the system. Thank you, TACC LSS team
Updated on Jan 1, 2021 12:14:25 PM
Frontera, Stampede2 and other services are back on line as of 12 noon (CST) on Friday, January 1 2021. Lonestar5 remains offline at this time as we work to restore it.
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Network Performance Issue
Posted by Garland Whiteside on Dec 22, 2020 1:55:41 AM
TACC staff are investigating a network performance issue which is affecting login process to TACC systems. Staff are working to resolve the problem.
Updated on Dec 22, 2020 2:22:41 AM
TACC Staff has concluded the work on the network performance issue. The issue has been resolved.
Original Posting
TACC staff are investigating a network performance issue which is affecting login process to TACC systems. Staff are working to resolve the problem.
Code Performance and Scaling for Frontera Proposals - December 9th, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT
Posted by Jason Allison on Nov 27, 2020 4:43:14 PM
We are pleased to announce the Code Performance and Scaling for Frontera Proposals webinar being held on December 9th, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM CT. During this event we will describe the opportunities for requesting access to both Frontera and Longhorn, provide guidance on how to determine...
/work Filesystem Status Wednesday 11 November 2020
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Nov 11, 2020 10:19:42 AM
The /work filesystem is currently unavailable due to a server problem, administrators are working to resolve the issue.
Updated on Nov 11, 2020 11:10:21 AM
The issue has been resolved and queues are being opened.
Original Posting
The /work filesystem is currently unavailable due to a server problem, administrators are working to resolve the issue.
Lonestar5 Status Thursday 29 October 2020
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Oct 29, 2020 9:04:23 AM
Lonestar5 is experiencing an issue with backend services preventing job submissions. We are working on restoring service and expect currently running jobs to complete.
Updated on Oct 29, 2020 10:14:05 AM
The issues have been resolved and the queues have been reopened.
Original Posting
Lonestar5 is experiencing an issue with backend services preventing job submissions. We are working on restoring service and expect currently running jobs to complete.
Lonestar5 Status Thursday 22 October 2020
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Oct 22, 2020 9:47:42 AM
Lonestar5 has had an unexpected outage related to scratch filesystem metadata service. The filesystem is restored on login nodes however many compute nodes still have connectivity issues and are being restored as quickly as possible. Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC User...
Containers @ TACC - 6 November, 2020 9am-3pm
Posted by Jason Allison on Oct 21, 2020 4:00:39 PM
We are pleased to announce the Containers @ TACC Training being held on November 6th, 2020 from 9am to 3pm CT. Software containers are an important common currency for portable and reproducible computing. Learn best practices on building, using, and sharing Docker and Singularity containers in this...
/work Filesystem Status Thursday 10 September 2020
Posted by Matthew Edeker on Sep 10, 2020 2:21:55 PM
The /work filesystem is currently unavailable due to a failed switch, TACC staff are working to replace the switch and restore access to the filesystem.
Updated on Sep 10, 2020 2:52:11 PM
The /work filesystem switch has been repaired and /work is available now on all systems.
Original Posting
The /work filesystem is currently unavailable due to a failed switch, TACC staff are working to replace the switch and restore access to the filesystem.