LinGA Archive Issue: Update
LinGA Users, Issues with the archive server persist. We are in contact with the vendor to resolve the issue. Affected services 1) /illumina/data partition not accessible 2) MySQL database (linga-dbase) not accessible 3) Framingham pipeline scripts that rely on the database Next update 3/28 @ 2:00 pm
LinGA Archive Issue
LinGA Users, Please note that the LinGA archive server went down on 3/27 @ 7:00 pm Affected services /illumina/data partition not accessible MySQL database (linga-dbase) not accessible Framingham pipeline scripts that rely on the database Next update 3/28 @ 10:00 am
New LinGA Storage Page
Dear LinGA Users, Recently we have had a number of questions about storage usage, replication and snapshots. Data backups and integrity are one of the many things we do behind the scenes, but in an effort to be more ... More
RubySky Capacity Increase
Dear LinGA Users, We have made available more cores on RubySky, increasing the number of processors from 512 to 1024. If you have been waiting a long time for jobs to run on either RedStar or BlueIce, consider resubmitting these jobs on RubySky. Thanks, LinGA Adminsitrators
LinGA Storage Issue: Resolved
The brief interruption experienced on Wednesday was caused by a firmware mismatch on a recently replaced part. The firmware was updated on Wednesday to match its failover partner. After failover testing and 48 hours of monitoring, the open case with the vendor has been closed. The LinGA storage system is stable.
LinGA Storage Issue
LinGA Users, Earlier this morning one of the servers from the main LinGA storage cluster crashed and went in failover mode. Soon after its high-availability pair also experienced issues. As a result, our storage system was inaccessible for a short time. The following partitions were affected: /protected/individuals/ (/data/home) /protected/projects /unprotected/projects (/data/share) Currently... More
Now Available: RStudio
RStudio has been installed on the RubySky login-node! LinGA's compute environment is not directly accessible from the internet and accessing the RStudio web-gui requires port-forwarding, something previously undocumented on the LinGA page. Please take a look at the new documentation. The final section is an example for RStudio. Note that RStudio does... More
Video Documentation!
With the introduction of our new YouTube Channel, documentation has been updated to contain convenient video tutorials. VPN - http://www.bumc.bu.edu/linga/documentation/connecting/ PuTTY - http://www.bumc.bu.edu/linga/documentation/connecting/incoming-to-linga/windows/interactive/windows-text-only/ X-Win32 - http://www.bumc.bu.edu/linga/documentation/connecting/incoming-to-linga/windows/interactive/windows-gui/ FTP\FileZilla - http://www.bumc.bu.edu/linga/documentation/connecting/incoming-to-linga/windows/transfer/#Filezilla
YouTube Channel!
LinGA has a new YouTube Channel!
LinGA Power Outage: Resolved
All LinGA systems are back online. Systems were brought online throughout the week and most functionality was returned by Wednesday. The final cluster, RubySky, was enabled for use on Friday. During the outage, we took the opportunity to repair and make cluster-wide configuration changes to the nodes and clusters. Thank you... More
