Brecca Shutdown - 10th August
Brecca is due to be retired to be replaced by a nice new cluster of AMD Opteron machines called “Tango”.
Currently we are expecting to retire Brecca on the weekend of the 11th August as that is the date of power work in the machine room to support the new power and cooling for the new cluster. All VPAC machines will need to be shut down that weekend.
We are currently waiting for confirmation from RMIT of that date, but we have put a reservation on to prevent *any* jobs starting now that would still be running on the 11th. Shorter jobs will still run. Jobs that were already started and have not finished will sadly need to be killed.
Remember that a VPAC account lets you access any of the academic clusters at VPAC (Brecca, Wexstan and Edda at present) and that your files are independent of the clusters, so Brecca going away won’t change your data and you will see the same files whichever cluster you login to.