Message of the Day

The Wrigley Field Compute Cluster at Michigan State University.

Current Alerts

Use strong passwords. Do not use your password on cap.pa.msu.edu for any other account.

Current News

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The permissions on your home directory must be 0700 in order for ssh logins to the compute nodes to work. This is required for delivery of output files from batch jobs. I'm investigating issue. For now, set the permission on your home directory to 0700 (running gensshkeys will also do this).

-- TDR - 22 Dec 2005

The cluster move is complete.

-- TDR - 18 Nov 2005

The cluster move is currently scheduled for Wednesday morning November 16. Until then, the head node is on, but the worker nodes will remain off. The IP address (DNS) change is scheduled to be active today, which means that cap.pa.msu.edu won't resolve correctly until the move is complete.

-- TDR - 14 Nov 2005

The cluster will be relocated to the Computer Center on Monday November 14. The cluster will be down from Sunday evening until the move is completed. The network addresses of the cluster nodes will be changed at this time; the name will remain the same. I'll send an email to all users once the cluster is back online.

-- TDR - 10 Nov 2005

Node cc018 is back online after power supply replacement.

The Ethernet devices have had firmware updates and the networking will be more stable now.

-- TDR - 28 Oct 2005

An upgrade to the firmware for the Broadcom Ethernet devices is needed to fix network freezing issue. This has been performed on cap and cc019 and testing shows that it is effective. The remaining nodes will be rebooted in order to perform the update today or tomorrow.

-- TDR - 20 Oct 2005

Node cc018 is down for power supply replacement.

-- TDR - 15 Oct 2005

The cluster is running in BPS 1221. Contact me if you'd like a UserAccount. Currently, we have a couple DzeroReleases and AtlasReleases installed. The BatchSystem is also up.

-- TDR - 20 Sep 2005

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