Planned system actualisation on /storage/plzen1/ and GALAXY portal outage

8.-9.10.2015 - Planned system actualisation on /storage/plzen1/ and GALAXY portal outage

Dear users,

Let us inform you that From October 8 to 9 the Pilsen's /storage/plzen1/ will be unavailable due to moving on a new hardware

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IMPORTANT
Portal GALAXY, hosted on the storage will be unavailable during the outage.
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Influence on the running jobs:

• the jobs that work with the data saved on (or will save data to) another disk array will not be influenced
• the jobs that perform their computations within the scratch space, which check the success of copying-out the resulting data (e.g., using the script skeleton available at https://wiki.metacentrum.cz/wiki/Running_jobs_in_scheduler#Recommended_procedures), and which will try to save the resulting data into  /storage/plzen1/ during the outage, will not be influenced as well (you'll find the resulting data in the scratch space of the relevant nodes)
• the jobs that work directly with the data saved in /storage/plzen1/ or the jobs that will not check the success of copying-out the data into this array, will most probably crash. If you have some critical/long-term computations, that may be influenced by the outage, let us know -- we'll try to suspend your computation during the outage (however, the success of the suspend process cannot be guaranteed)