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Monday, January 4th, 2021

2020-01-04 BisonNet Storage Update

We have been working with our storage vendor to improve both the performance and stability of the new BisonNet storage software. While we have made some definite progress on the performance front, we do know that there are currently some stability issues that we’re facing. The vendor is actively troubleshooting them and already has some software fixes in the works to address our issues. You may use the BisonNet environment, but we must caution that it’s possible that jobs may be interrupted at some point due to the stability issues. As always, we recommend copying any resulting data that you generate […]

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Friday, November 13th, 2020

BisonNet Extended Outage (12/14/20 – 12/18/20)

There is some required work that needs to be done on the BisonNet storage due to one of the products we use being end-of-lifed by the vendor. Unfortunately, due to the size of the data that we need to migrate to a new storage solution and the nature of the migration, the outage will be lengthy. It will be done in two phases: The entire BisonNet environment will be unavailable from Monday, December 14 at noon until Friday December 18 at midnight. Any running jobs will be terminated at the beginning of the outage. No jobs will be able to be run during the outage window […]

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Friday, August 7th, 2020

BisonNet Unavailable on August 10, 2020

The BisonNet environment will be unavailable on Monday, August 10, 2020, from 6am – midnight while some maintenance and upgrades are performed. Any compute jobs running in the environment at the start of the outage will be terminated. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

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