Hello everybody!
Back in August the research computing (RC) team here at Harvard started a major overhaul of the computing and server resources for the entire University. Now that spring is here and we are about to do some renovation, the room where we store the jabbas and the CEP servers needs to be decommissioned. Our friends at RC have very generously offered to move our servers and the storage jabbas into their secure data center in downtown Boston. In the long run this will mean that the CEP servers get a more professional love and attention.
This move will be happening on Monday, May 5th.
We are currently aiming to have the machines relocated and running on the evening of that day. Worse case something fails to start on the move and we may need to take a little of Tuesday. Since we'll be moving the server machines that process the data being fed from the World Community Grid, we'll need to pause the feed during this move.
The IBM team can probably provide a better overview of what this temporary server downtime means from their side of the grid.
Thank you in advance for your understanding during this temporary downtime.
- Your Harvard CEP team
