CGD, Below is the CISL announcement for the Fall, 2009 power down set for Sat 17 Oct 09. CGD/IS will be powering down our systems starting at 5:00pm MDT on Fri 16 Oct 09. Systems will be up some time Saturday evening after CISL completes their work. -- Mark --0- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Moore UCAR/NCAR/CGD mmoore@ucar.edu 1850 Table Mesa Drive (W) 303 497-1338 Boulder, CO 80305 (F) 303 497-1324 -----Begin Attachment------ Mesa Lab / CISL Data Center - Shutdown announcement On Saturday, October 17th, 2009 the NCAR / CISL Data Center will be shut down to facilitate preventative maintenance on all infrastructure support systems. This is the normal fall season down time for this purpose. Please note this activity is a complete shut down, scheduled for 0600 hrs to 1800 hrs. (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Some computing systems, depending on their function will begin their shutdown Friday afternoon / evening and the supercomputer systems will begin their shut down at 0001 (one minute after midnight) 10/17/09. Please make arrangements accordingly. Once all maintenance work is completed, the systems will be brought back up in their order of dependency. CISL and PPS (Physical Plant Services) maintain the twelve hour window to accomplish all tasks at hand. Basic networking for phone service will be available for the Mesa Lab during most of this maintenance window, however intermittent outages may occur. The following services will be unavailable for all NCAR / UCAR sites from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wireless networking VPN and dialup UCAR web Authentication (UCAS) UCAR DNS UCAR Mail servers All office computer systems at the Mesa Lab need to be powered off before leaving work on Friday 10/16/09. For more information, contact Gary New at ext. 1212, garyn@ucar.edu