Network, Computer and Power Outages at Wilson Lab: June 19-24, 2006

Power (US2) will be off in the LEPP and CLEO trailers, and air conditioning will be off in Wilson Lab, on Friday, June 23rd (approx. 7:30AM - 3:00PM)

• Most LEPP computers will be unusable starting at 6AM on Friday, June 23.
  • Most Windows systems will work but many software packages won't.
  • No Unix/Linux systems will work until after about 3PM.

Power (US1) will be off in Wilson Lab's main building on Saturday, June 24th (approx. 7:30AM - 3:00PM)

• All LEPP computers will be unusable starting at 6AM on Saturday, June 24.

What should you do?

• Logout before going home on Thursday and Friday.
• Spend time with family and friends Friday and Saturday.
• No backups can be done Friday through Sunday. Make a copy elsewhere of any file you edit, just in case.
• Saturday network access from a Laptop will have to use Cornell's Red Rover service. See http://www.cit.cornell.edu/redrover/
• Don't turn off any systems. LEPP computer group staff will be shutting systems down as needed.
• All batch jobs must complete before Friday morning. The Unix batch queues will be suspended from Thursday evening until late Monday afternoon at the earliest.

For details, please look at the Web page PowerOutage2006

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact any member of the LEPP computer group or send e'mail to service.

-- SeldenBall - 15 Jun 2006
-- RayHelmke - 16 Jun 2006