Email communications to the OARC community have been compiled here.

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07/23/2024: Amarel filesystem communication problem

07/17/2024: Amarel Maintenance window over

07/15/2024: Amarel Monthly Maintenance this week

07/12/2024: RESOLVED: Amarel not responsive

07/12/2024: Amarel not responsive

07/11/2024: RESOLVED: Amarel performance affected due to gpfs storage issues

07/11/2024: Amarel performance affected due to gpfs storage issues

07/4/2024: RESOLVED: Amarel Piscataway Outage, 7/3

07/3/2024: Amarel Piscataway Outage, 7/3

06/19/2024: Amarel cluster- monthly maintenance finished

05/21/2024: Amarel cluster- monthly maintenance finished

05/14/2024: Amarel Scratch Space Update

04/17/2024: Amarel Scratch Space Update

3/20/2024: Amarel Cluster is back in production

3/9/2024: CAMDEN (amarelc) Planned Outage

02/21/2024: Amarel cluster- monthly maintenance finished

01/30/2024: MOE Site License training sessions

01/24/2024: Amarel maintenance is complete

2023

12/18/2023: Amarel Monthly Maintenance this week

11/28/2023: Young Researchers: Apply for the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 22 – 27, 2024

11/28/2023: OARC‘s feature in the Rutgers IT Annual Report

11/15/2023: Electrical Power Issues – Amarel Cluster

11/02/2023: Electrical Power Issues – Amarel Cluster

10/24/2023: RESOLVED: Unexpected network problems

10/24/2023: Unexpected network problems

10/18/2023: Maintenance Extension

10/16/2023: Amarel Maintenance this Week

10/05/2023: INFO: Texas A&M University – Computational Courses

09/18/2023: Amarel Maintenance this Week

09/07/2023: Network interruption and possible job failure

08/29/2023: Resolved: Network outage on Amarel cluster

08/28/2023: Network outage on Amarel cluster

08/28/2023: Network outage on Amarel cluster

08/28/2023: Network outage on Amarel cluster

08/28/2023: Network outage on Amarel cluster

07/17/2023: Amarel Maintenance this Week

07/14/2023: Amarel cooling system and reduced capacity

07/06/2023: Resolved: HILL DATA CENTER EMERGENCY: Amarel cluster emergency shutdown due to cooling failure

07/05/2023: HILL DATA CENTER EMERGENCY: Amarelcluster emergency shutdown due to cooling failure

06/26/2023: Camden Amarel Network Outage

06/24/2023: Camden Amarel Network Outage

06/21/2023: Amarel is back online

06/12/2023: OARC hiring – senior scientist/research facilitator

05/17/2023: Amarel Cluster is back to production

04/20/2023: Amarel cluster is back in production

04/19/2023: Amarel maintenance extended

04/17/2023: Amarel Cluster maintenance: Tues-Wed

04/03/2023: NJMS virtual talk on AI for drug discovery

03/26/2023: Talks and job opportunities – AI for Molecules

03/15/2023: March maintenance completed

03/06/2023: CAMDEN storage system is back online

03/06/2023: CAMDEN storage system is down. 

02/22/2023: Amarel cluster back to production

02/22/2023: Maintenance period extended for couple hours

02/20/2023: Amarel Maintenance – Feb21 and Feb22

02/14/2023: Announcement about OARC leadership

02/09/2023: Amareln is back online

02/09/2023: Amareln is offline

02/05/2023: Network outages fixed

02/05/2023: NETWORK OUTAGES

01/25/2024: Amarel cluster – maintenance finished

01/23/2023: Maintenance Jan 24-25

01/04/2023: Date change for Amarel Maintenance in January

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2022

12/22/2022: Amarel Maintenance Extended for Newark and Camden Systems

11/03/2022: November Amarel Maintenance is Cancelled (skipping this month’s maintenance window)

10/19/2022: Amarel Maintenance Complete – Back in Service

10/1/2022: MOE license support extended for 2022-2023

09/19/2022: Amarel Maintenance Tomorrow – Tue, September 20 to Wed, September 21

08/17/2022: Amarel Returned to Service Wed Aug 17, 745pm

08/17/2022: Amarel Maintenance – Extended for testing until 9pm

08/15/2022: Amarel Monthly Maintenance Tomorrow – Tues, Aug 16 to Wed, Aug 17

08/09/2022: Amarel Cluster nodes are back in service

08/09/2022: Imapct of Power Outage on the Amarel Cluster

07/20/2022: Amarel Returned to Service Tues Jul 20, 8:45pm

07/20/2022: Amarel – Extending Scheduled Maintenance – Tues. Jul 19, Wed Jul 20

07/19/2022: Call for Participation: Workshops on the use of AI to interrogate digital cultural heritage collections at Rutgers and Durham University. September and October 2022

07/18/2022: Amarel Maintenance Tomorrow – Tues, July 19 to Wed, July 20

07/14/2022: Amarel Login Nodes Reboot

06/22/2022: Amarel Maintenance Complete – Back in Service 

06/20/2022:  Amarel Maintenance Tomorrow – Tues, June 21 to Wed, June 22

05/18/2022: Amarel Maintenance Complete – Back in Service

05/18/2022: 3 to 6 Month Research Computing Support Projects (and NSF Funding) for Students

05/11/2022: Amarel Monthly Maintenance May 17-18

05/04/2022: Amarel Phase 5A Nodes – Proceed with Full-Use of Resources

02/17/2022: RESOLVED: Amarel Slurm Controller failure – February 17, 2022

02/17/2022: UPDATE: Amarel Slurm Controller failure – February 17, 2022

02/17/2022: Amarel Slurm Controller failure – February 17, 2022

02/10/2022: Removal of Amarel Phase 1 Nodes and Storage

01/11/2022: Update re: Amarel Cluster Maintenance rescheduled to January 11-12

01/05/2022: Amarel Cluster Maintenance rescheduled to January 11-12

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2021

12/30/2021: Re: Intermittent SLURM Controller Issue Impacting Some Jobs

12/30/2021: Intermittent SLURM Controller Issue Impacting Some Jobs

12/20/2021: OARC ANNOUNCEMENT – December 20, 2021 – re: unexpected Newark power outage

12/08/2021: OARC ANNOUNCEMENT – December 08, 2021 – re: staff availability and help 12/14/21 – 12/16/21

11/30/2021: Research Computing at Rutgers: Present and Future – A message from the Sr Vice President for Research and Sr Vice President for IT/CIO

11/17/2021: RE: Reminder: Amarel-N offline due to Newark campus power outage

11/15/2021: Reminder: Amarel-N offline due to Newark campus power outage

11/12/2021: Newark Campus Power Outage

11/05/2021: A Brief Network Interruption Occurred at 16:49 on Friday (05-NOV)

11/04/2021: Amarel CCB nodes and storage deprovisioning

10/21/2021: COMPLETE: Amarel OCT Maintenance Extension

10/20/2021: Amarel OCT Maintenance Extension

08/24/2021: FINAL NOTICE: Caliburn and ELF removal from service: Aug 31

08/12/2021: Caliburn and ELF removal from service: Aug 31

08/06/2021: Amarel August monthly maintenance — UPDATE

08/05/2021: Re: Scheduled Amarel maintenance on August 10–UPDATE

08/05/2021: Scheduled Amarel maintenance on August 10–UPDATE

08/03/2021: Scheduled Amarel maintenance on August 10

07/20/2021: Caliburn and ELF are Available Again + Shift to Open-Access

07/13/2021: Re: Caliburn and ELF clusters lost cooling

07/06/2021: Caliburn and ELF clusters lost cooling

04/20/2021: Amarel monthly maintenance (April)

04/13/2021: Transition to ServiceNow (for support requests)

04/07/2021: Approximate pricing for Amarel Phase 5 – reserve now!

03/22/2021: System performance is back to normal

03/17/2021: March 19-21, 2021 monthly Amarel maintenance

03/11/2021: SOLVED: Network connection issues on Amarel

03/11/2021: Network connection issues on Amarel

02/22/2021: Your Amarel Phase 1 owned equipment will soon expire – ACTION REQUIRED

02/15/2021: Reminder: Monthly Maintenance Schedule for Amarel

01/28/2021: CORRECTION: Monthly Maintenance Schedule for Amarel

01/28/2021: Monthly Maintenance Schedule for Amarel

01/15/2021: Maintenance complete: Amarel is now back in service

01/08/2021: REMINDER: Amarel will be Offline for Maintenance JAN 11-15

01/08/2021: Camden Power Outage Complete

01/04/2021: REMINDER RE: Power outage in Camden, 1/7/2021

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2020

12/22/2020: Amarel will be Offline for Maintenance JAN 11-15

12/21/2020: Power outage in Camden, 1/7/2021

12/07/2020: The JUN – NOV Caliburn Allocation Period Has Ended

11/30/2020: Caliburn’s Availability Between Allocation Periods

11/16/2020: Final reminder: Transitioning to a 1TB /scratch quota

11/11/2020: CAREERS Cyberteam Program: Call for Student Trainees

11/11/2020: Details re: Transitioning to a 1 TB /scratch quota

11/04/2020: Reminder: Transitioning to a 1TB /scratch quota

10/30/2020: Caliburn Call for Proposals

10/24/2020: WoCCode 2021

10/23/2020: Amarel Storage Roadmap (Oct 2020)

10/8/2020: Owners of now Retired HPCC computers nodes- Please re-purchase your Amarel Project storage before 10/31

10/6/2020: Transitioning to a 1TB /scratch quota

8/25/2020: New Amarel GPU acquisition

8/19/2020: REMINDER – Please Read: HPCC ownership will end July 1, 2020

8/6/2020: Transitioning to a 1TB /scratch quota

7/8/2020: Announcing the Weekly Open Workshop

6/3/2020: UPDATE: Clarification to notice of HPCC ownership retirement

6/3/2020: Clarification to notice of HPCC ownership retirement

6/3/2020: Please Read: HPCC ownership will end July 1, 2020

5/5/2020: Qiagen seminar for IPA and CLC users working on Covid-19

3/24/2020: COVID-19 Research on OARC Systems + New Data Available

3/17/2020: UPDATE: Newark-Based Systems Offline for Maintenance (March 13 – 22)

3/16/2020: Maple, STATA, SPSS free to Rutgers Users

3/11/2020: Newark-Based Systems Offline for Maintenance (March 13 – 22)

3/7/2020: ELF is now back in service

3/3/2020: Urgent: Perceval Sunsetting and transition information for account holders

1/22/2020: Purchasing Amarel nodes & storage (currently sold-out)

1/16/2020: SECOND COMMUNICATION – Transition to new role for the Perceval Supercomputer

1/15/2020: Open OnDemand Filesystem Access Restored

1/14/2020: Filesystem Access Issue for Open OnDemand Users

1/10/2020: Amarel & Perceval: Maintenance Complete

1/6/2020: Caliburn Status Update – Expected Full Production by Jan 30.

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2019

12/20/2019: Amarel system-wide maintenance JAN 6 – 10

9/25/2019: UPDATE: Caliburn storage systems are now (temporarily) accessible

9/24/2019: Caliburn storage systems are now (temporarily) accessible

9/22/2019: Caliburn system, data, and proposal process updates

9/10/2019: Purging Files from /scratch (Wed, Sept 18)

9/5/2019: Removing data from the old (retired) Sirius server

8/22/2019: Purging Files from /scratch

8/9/2019: Newark Data Center Maintenance

7/11/2019:Maintenance complete: all systems returned to service + new filesystem

7/2/2019: Purging Files from /scratch + Storage Software update on July 10

6/28/2019: UPDATE: Conley2 machine room maintenance

6/24/2019: Conley2 machine room maintenance

6/10/2019: Amarel maintenance is complete + important notes (regarding /scratch, /home, and Lmod)

5/13/2019: Amarel/Perceval maintenance outage (end of May, start of June)

4/25/2019: Amarel Research Computing Cluster Phase III ownership opportunity

3/13/2019: Amarel Cluster Buy-in Opportunity: Consumer GPU Servers

3/6/2019: Sirius Data Transfer + Sirius3 OnDemand Interface

2/13/2019: Changes to Perceval partitions

2/12/2019: Amarel & Perceval /home quota adjustments

1/29/2019: Amarel login node reboot

1/13/2019: Decommissioning of RCI, Eden and apps.rutgers.edu

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2018

10/23/2018: Amarel & Perceval Lmod Upgrade

10/12/2018: Maintenance now complete for Amarel, Perceval, NM3 (+ important notes re: /scratch, /home)

10/4/2018: October 29th – End of Life Shutdown of Newton Cluster – Fwd: The Sunsetting of the Newton Cluster

10/3/2018: Major Maintenance for Amarel, Perceval, NM3 (Oct 5 – 11)

8/1/2018: Requests to be taken off of the [OARC] mailing list

7/27/2018: RESOLVED: GPFS filesystem issue

7/27/2018: GPFS filesystem issue

7/9/2018: Updated URL for OARC user guides (Amarel, Perceval, etc.)

4/3/2018: The Sunsetting of the Newton Cluster

3/27/2018: Amarel & Perceval Community-Contributed Software

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2017 

12/21/2017: OARC Holiday Support Schedule

11/15/2017: Troubleshooting a Scheduling Problem

10/28/2017: Amarel maintenance concluded (+ merge of HPCC into Amarel)

10/23/2017: Merge of HPCC into Amarel

9/25/2017: Advanced computing cluster open access, now available to all Rutgers researchers

9/13/2017: HPCC merge with Amarel

6/6/2017: UPDATE: HPCC and Perceval Maintenance

6/4/2017: HPCC and Perceval Maintenance

4/13/2017: HPCC/Perceval maintenance window (+ HPCC cluster merging into Amarel)

3/17/2017: HPCC and Perceval maintenance scheduled (+ improvements to the storage, scheduler, and connection to RU network)

2/20/2017: Adjustment to Job Scheduling Policy on Perceval

1/4/2017: Home dirs on tyr cluster

1/3/2017: Introducing Amarel – Rutgers’ high performance computing for research advancement Kristin Lepping (sent university-wide)

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2016 

10/23/2016: UPDATE: HPCC and Hill Center upgrades complete: HPCC available (+ migration of HPCC to new environment)

10/21/2016: HPCC and Hill power upgrades – TODAY – Friday, 10/21/16 at 5:00 pm