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MARCONI: system operation on network switches

Dear Users, a system operation is required on one of the “Director Switches” of the MARCONI internal network. It should not result in any production interruption, but some job crash could […]

PICO: scheduled down for enforcing the quotas for the home areas

Dear Users, next month (Sep 6, 2016) we are scheduling a down of PICO for enforcing the quota values for the user home directories. At present no quotas are defined and […]

MARCONI: “cindata” command now available

Dear Users, now the “cindata” command is available on MARCONI. It is useful to check the status of you storage areas, your quotas and quantity of data contained. Enter “cindata […]

MARCONI: FERMI filesystems are now available on login nodes

Dear Users, you can now access filesystems originally on FERMI. They are in read-only mode and are mounted on the login nodes of MARCONI. For reaching them, you can use the […]

MARCONI: problems with PBS

Dear Users, we are experiencing problems with PBS on MArconi. We are working to solve this problem. Regards,

MARCONI:GSS repository available on login nodes

Dear Users, the GSS repository (DRES and TAPE) is now available on MARCONI login nodes. $DRES points to the DRES folder, $TAPE to the parsonal tape archive. The REPO area, […]

MARCONI: no more problems with PBS

Dear Users, the previously reported problems are over, now Marconi is iin full production Regards,

End of Fermi production

Dear Users, this is to inform you the FERMI, our Tier-0 machine, has been switched off this morning, July 15, 2016, at 8 o’clock. The Fermi storage areas ($HOME, $CINECA_SCRATCH […]

MARCONI: maintenance is completed, now up&running

Dear users, Marconi is now up and running. Regards,

End of Fermi production – information about storage areas

Dear Users, We remind you that FERMI will be off production on Monday, July 25th. We inform you that after the shutdown the FERMI filesystems $HOME, $CINECA_SCRATCH, and $WORK will […]