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TGTransition

To NCSA IBMp690 (copper) Users:

As announced in NCSA Access in December 2005
(http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Releases/05Releases/12.20.05_All_NCSA_S.html),
all NCSA HPC systems will be available as TeraGrid resources as of April
1, 2006. This will add NCSA's IBM p690 (copper), Xeon Cluster (tungsten),
and Condor Pool (radium) to TeraGrid. NCSA's IA-64 Linux Cluster (mercury)
and SGI Altix (cobalt) have already been available as TeraGrid resources.

Impact for current users of copper:
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All allocations that continue after April 1, 2006 will have their Service
Unit (SU) balances transferred to a new TeraGrid version of the machine,
and this new machine will have the balance as the new initial allocation,
rounded up to the next thousand SU. Under TeraGrid, machine copper will be
represented as tg_copper. The 3-letter NCSA project (PSN) will remain the
same. This will be reflected in the NCSA usage command.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The transfer of balances will occur over a 3 day period
starting Wednesday March 29, 2006 through Friday March 31, 2006. Users
will see the new TeraGrid machine and balances in usage as their projects
are processed over this period.

All renewal allocations starting April 1, 2006 will be considered new
TeraGrid allocations, which will include a courtesy login (referred to as
a Roaming Allocation) on all TeraGrid systems for access to Data Resources
in the TeraGrid.

The default environment on copper will remain the same. Users will be able
to continue computing on this system without any changes.

For more details, including additional TeraGrid capabilities available, 
please see:

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Hardware/TGTransition.html

Please contact the NCSA Consulting Office via e-mail at
consult@ncsa.uiuc.edu or by telephone at (217) 244-1144 with any
problems or concerns.
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Last Modified: March 24, 2006