Tiger WiFi Phase Two Schedule
Oct. 12, 2015 — The TigerWiFi conversion is 70% complete! Check out our progress below.
Phase Two begins Aug. 31 and will continue until all MU buildings are on TigerWiFi.
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| Aug. 31 | Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Epsilon Pi Alpha Phi/Alpha Phi Annex Alpha Tau Omega FAPRI 101 Park De Ville Dr/Adventure Club Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Delta Delta Delta Delta Dobbs Dining Hall Lathrop Laws |
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| Sept. 7 | Mark Twain Chancellor's Residence Surplus Property Museum Support |
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| Sept. 14 | North Center South Phi Mu/Phi Mu Annex Pi Beta Phi Pi Kappa Alpha Missouri Theatre Newsy 904 Elm St. North Node |
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| Sept. 21 | Clark Hall Lewis Hall Conley Avenue Garage General Services Building Hitt Street Garage Parking Structure 7 Turner Avenue Garage University Avenue Garage University Garage Virginia Avenue Garage Kappa Kappa Gamma |
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| Sept. 28 | Mizzou Arena (Postponed) Alpha Gamma Rho Conley House Greenhouse Jesse Hall Lowry Hall Sigma Chi Sigma Nu Student Success Center Whitten Hall |
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| Oct. 5 | Bingham Hatch Schurz Hillel |
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| Oct. 12 | Baptist Student Union Black Culture Center College Avenue Housing Johnston Plaza 900 Dining Hall Student Recreation Center (Brewer Fieldhouse, Rothwell Gym, Student Rec Addition) Stankowski Field |
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| Oct. 19 | Chi Omega Discovery Excellence Respect Responsibility Regional Biocontainment Laboratory Trowbridge Livestock Arena |
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| Oct. 26 | Gillett Hudson Rollins Dining Hall Tara Apartments Office |
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| Nov. 2 | Loeb McDavid 105 East Ash St. Old 63 Warehouse Heinkel Building Professional Building Reynolds Alumni Center Sigma Kappa Math Science Building McAlester Annex |
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| Nov. 9 | Defoe/Graham Dogwood Galena Hawthorn Pershing Dining Hall |
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| Nov. 16 | Botany Greenhouse Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center Hearnes A.L. Gustin Golf Course Green Tennis Center Gymnastics Marx Building Nano Building Technology Incubator Mizzou Tennis Center Walton Stadium |
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| Nov. 30 | Discovery Ridge KOMU RADIL 4011 Discovery Dr. Records Management University Press University Printing University Hall Old Alumni Center Providence Point Woodrail Building 7 Woodrail Building 6 |
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| Dec. 7 | Radiation Waste Storage Building Research Reactor Research Park Development Resource Recovery Rock Quarry Building Simmons Field 1110 South College - Extension University Place Apartments (office space) USDA Building USDA Greenhouse Waters Moss Building |
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| Jan. 4, 2016 | ADA Consulting Devine Pavilion Journalism Washington DC Mizzou Athletic Training Complex (MATC) Old Hawthorn Parentlink South Farms Library Book Depository 3 |
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Lewis3 Account Migration
Aug. 4, 2015 — The Lewis3 upgrade went into production on July 1, 2015, and the first phase of the old hardware that was no longer viable has been decommissioned and removed from the legacy cluster. The remaining nodes will continue to be retired or migrated to the Lewis3 cluster, starting with the nodes that replaced the Clark cluster. The entire legacy cluster will be decommissioned sometime after July 1, 2016, and we will now provide only limited support for this environment to allow us to focus on growing the Lewis3 system. On July 31, 2016, any account that has not been migrated to Lewis3 will be closed and all data permanently removed from the cluster.
GPRS Storage Now Available
July 22, 2015 — The General Purpose Research Storage (GPRS) system is now available for use with more than 1,000 tebibytes (TiB) of storage available for research projects. This storage is available for $10/TiB/Month and is accessible either for Linux (NFS), Windows (SMB) or directly connected to Lewis3 (HPC).
Lewis3 Scheduler Policy
June 18, 2015 — The new Lewis3 cluster is nearing production and the final stage is to implement a scheduler policy (the scheduler is currently running without any policy). In order to provide a fair and flexible environment and to ensure that resources are efficiently used, we are implementing the Fair Share allocation policy on the cluster scheduler (SLURM). This scheduler policy encourages users to specify resource requirements (cores, RAM, and compute time) to ensure that the jobs requirements can be met and can be scheduled efficiently. The default allocation will be for 1 core, 1GB of RAM, and for 2 hours. This type of job has historically accounted for between 50% and 80% of the jobs run on the cluster. The maximum job length will be limited to 48 hours for non-investors (historically 99% of jobs run less than 50 hours) and at least 168 hours for cluster investors with the fair-share will have a half-life of 28 days. Jobs that exceed their requested resource allocation will be terminated to protect the system (memory exhaustion, for example) and the scheduler. Investors in the cluster will receive allocation shares based on their investment, and the community resources provided by research computing will be divided up evenly among all the users with a portion allocated for external collaboration. The policy will be revised periodically based on cluster usage patterns and user feedback.
Tiger WiFi Schedule
May 19, 2015 — Following is the proposed schedule for the TigerWiFi upgrade; academic buildings will be completed by mid August. The phase 2 building schedule will be posted at a later date.
Lewis Cluster Upgrade
March 27, 2015 — Phase one of the Lewis cluster upgrade will become available soon. The new system (Lewis 3) consists of 20 24-core machines with 128 GB of RAM. It will run CentOS 7 and the SLURM job scheduler and form the basis of future upgrades. As a result, most of the software will need to be recompiled and job files will need to be updated to run in the new environment.
The new and old systems will run simultaneously for a short time to allow users to migrate over to the new system. To facilitate this, the data and home directories will be the same on both systems.
We will also update our documentation and policies. The first change will be to reduce the maximum job time to ensure we can transition in a timely manner without disruption.
Watch this space for future updates and information about the upgrade.
Big Data Analytics Summer Experience
March 13, 2015 — Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately society itself. The MU CS Department will offer Big Data Analytics Summer Experience again, from July 6 through July 24, 2015. This program will introduce key Big Data processing and analytics technologies and teach practical skills and practices. This program is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals. Application deadline is April 10, 2015. Get details and application instructions.
Need To Write a Data Management Plan?
Feb. 20, 2015 — Addressing a data management plan for the first time can be an intimidating exercise. Join NISO for a hands-on workshop that will guide you through the elements of creating a data management plan, including gathering necessary information, identifying needed resources, and navigating potential pitfalls. Participants will explore the important components of a data management plan and critique excerpts of sample plans provided by the instructors.