Year: 2019

The system hosting filesystems  /z/Comp is currently “resilvering” (recreating RAID redundancy) and needed to take itself offline in order to rebuild. This is now complete, and /z/Comp is available (as of AM, Friday 11/23)

We are currently experiencing slowness with filesystems located under /z/Comp. In part this is a response to a failed drive. The system is currently “resilvering” (recreating RAID redundancy), which is the normal response to a …

Campus is currently experiencing some issues with the central firewall. This may result in erratic access to some services.

This is a reminder that all UW–Madison students (and student employees) must enroll in multi-factor authentication from Duo (MFA-Duo) before this Thursday, October 31. Any student (or student employee) who does not enroll prior to …

The login server adhara is currently down after a power outage. We’re rebuilding that machine. In the meantime, you can log in using the hosts mi1.biostat.wisc.edu and mi2.biostat.wisc.edu. Wed, Oct 23: adhara is back up …

UPDATE July 11: Apple is pushing out a silent update which will remove the vulnerable component.(link is external)“Apple said the update does not require any user interaction and is deployed automatically.” A recent Zoom vulnerability(link is external) was announced …

We recently added new drives to expand the space on /z/Comp, but the server hardware really does not like some of these new drives. Because of how the system works, it is taking us a while …

Introduction: We have scheduled a, two-hour file server outages for Wed March 13 @ 9pm to install hardware in preparation for an computing cluster enhanced network speed roll-out. If you use Condor, or have long-running …