ARCHIVED: Completed project: Libra retirement
Primary UITS contact: Peg Lindenlaub
Completed: June 30, 2009
Description: In spring 2009, the High Performance Systems (HPS) group will retire the Libra cluster, which has been in service since 2005. Accounts are available on the newer Quarry cluster, a general-purpose Unix computing environment. The Research Database Cluster (RDC) will remain in service.
Milestones and status:
- November 5, 2008: Represent change at Change Management
- November 12, 2008: Notify RDC users that the RDC nodes will remain in service
- November 17, 2008: Update MOTD on Libra cluster
- November 17, 2008: Add boilerplate text to Libra Knowledge Base documents
- November 19, 2008: Post announcement in UITS Monitor
- December 2, 2008: Disable accounts on cluster based on information from Account Management Services
- December 3, 2008: Email retirement notice to active account holders
- January 12, 2009: Stop installing new software
- February 13, 2009: Phase I of KB document review complete
- February 16, 2009: Stop creating new accounts
- April 15, 2009: Review of software on Libra completed by High Performance Applications (HPA) group
- April 20, 2009: Send email reminder to active account holders
- May 15, 2009: Additional software packages installed on Quarry and Big Red to complement software available on Libra
- June 1, 2009: Software to be disabled on Libra:
- NAG programming libraries, visualization and tools: available on Quarry
- IMSL libraries: available on Quarry
- Climate Data Operators (CDO): available on Quarry
- SimWalk2: available on Big Red
- Merlin: available on Big Red
- June 15, 2009: Email a reminder to Libra account holders
- June 30, 2009: Disable interactive login
- July 30, 2009: Power down hardware (JS21s and Libra00)
Benefits: The Quarry cluster is the newest supercomputer available at IU and provides a more robust environment for stat/math and other application software.
Primary clients: IU students, faculty, and staff, and IU affiliates
Comment process: Send email to High Performance Systems.
Project team:
- David Bickel
- Karen Garrett
- Dennis Gillespie
- Collin Gayde
- Dave Hancock
- Mary Hrovat
- Peg Lindenlaub
Governance: Craig Stewart, Associate Dean for Research Technologies
This is document axve in the Knowledge Base.
Last modified on 2018-01-18 16:14:39.