Status

As a consequence of yesterday’s instability, the file server that serves /z/Comp is currently rebooting. This can take up to two hours, due to the size of the file systems. 4:15pm. We have identified a …

8:40am. There is a hardware fault on the file server which provides most /z/Comp space. We are looking into this now and will update this page as we know more. 9:57am: The file system is …

The file server that handles computational workloads has been under severe load the last few days, and has become unstable as a result. We are currently working that machine. We will start a reboot shortly …

One of the main file servers is currently unresponsive. We’re working on this now. 11:30 – issue resolved. Thanks for your patience.

JIRA (sysreq@biostat.wisc.edu) will be down for maintenance tonight from 6pm until 10pm. The web interface will often be unavailable during that time. Any new requests you send to sysreq will be processed when the maintenance …

RESOLVED: 9:20am. File server access is working again. The computational file server, which hosts files from /z/Comp/, is currently down. We’re working on it now.

There will be periodic, brief network outages for Biostat compute and storage servers, between 8am and noon on Saturday, August 27, 2022. This will be happening as we upgrade some of the power infrastructure in …

Work on networking infrastructure in one of our server rooms will result in intermittent access to core Biostat computing resources between 8pm and midnight, Tuesday, June 21st. Services provided by DoIT (such as your email) …

On Wednesday, March 30th, from 6am to 4pm, Facilities will be making changes to the cooling in our CSC server room. To limit the need for cooling in that room while the work goes on, …

The default version of R is now 4.1. If you need to use the previous version, you can use the command R35 to get that. If you regularly install packages for yourself, you may need …