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- Now Please start to prepare your directories on /work/ollie for transfer to Albedo!
- Delete data you do not need to keep,
- copy tarballs of valuable data to the tape archive (you should do this anyhow, /work has no backup),
- place a copy of data which you need continuously with fast access to /isibhv.
- We will not transfer data automatically from Ollie to Albedo!! This is a chance to clean up ;-)
- May
Albedo hardware has arrived at AWI. - 30. June
Ollie hardware support ends. As a prolongation would cost approx. 200.000€, we keep Ollie running w/o support, but with the option to have basic components (file system, network) repaired in case of an emergency (maintenance on demand). So far, we have very good experiences with the service of MegWare and are confident that we found a solution that is cost efficient and sustainable. - 4th July + following week
The floor in the server room had to be enforced. Then, all racks were installed, with compute nodes, service nodes, disks, switches, side coolers. - July
NEC starts with configuration - August/September
finalize configuration, in particular of /work and /scratch file system. - September
??? open for power users
?????? open to all users
Copy data from Ollie to Albedo (Note: must be done by yourself, there is no automatic data migration!)
The more Albedo nodes are powered on, the more Ollie nodes have to be switched off. We have no schedule for this, but would decide depending on how useful Albedo already is for how many users. Of course, Albedo has a far better ratio of computing vs. electric power.
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