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• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: 9/17/97 1:12 PM

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     To all:
     
     Please be advised that the Gateway has a planned outage tomorrow
     (Thursday) late day...between 18-22 GMT.
     
     This could extend into the early morning z-hours of Friday.
     
     details within bulletin below...
     
     Lorraine Smith
     Alden Electronics
     Data Comm/ZFX Operations
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NOUS42 KWBC 171550
     
SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION
CENTRAL OPERATIONS / NCEP / NWS / WASHINGTON DC 
1545 UTC WED SEP 17 1997
     
171545Z  NCEP CRAY3 IS RUNNING NEAR NORMAL BUT IS MISSING ONE CPU. 
 TO ADDRESS YESTERDAYS PROBLEMS WE MUST SCHEDULE A CRAY3 OUTAGE 
FOR THURSDAY SEP 18 FOLLOWING THE 1200 UTC CYCLE AVN-WAVE -AND 
HURRICANE MODELS. APPROXIMATE OUTAGE TIMES WILL BE 1800 TO 2200 
UTC. IF NECESSARY THE OUTAGE WILL EXTEND TO 0100 UTC FRI SEP 19.  
UP TO THREE NEW HARDWARE REPLACEMENTS MAY BE NECESSARY. ONLY IF 
NECESSARY..MODELS SUCH AS THE MESOETA..RUC..AND ENSEMBLES WILL 
HAVE TO BE EXPENDABLE WHILE WE RUN ON THE MORE LIMITED CRAY5. 
WEINBRENNER/SDM/QAP/NCEP
     


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