Sorry for the short notice but I'm going to take sasquatch.tamu.edu down
for a short period to attempt a memory upgrade. This maintenance will
occur Friday morning, 21 OCT 2011, between 0800-1200 CDT (1300-1700 UTC).
At this time, I'm getting bids in for an upgrade of the
bigbird/sasquatch pair into a cluster of servers running similar to the
clustering at Unidata. I hopeto have bids in later this week, and to
issue a purchase order within two weeks.
When the new hardware is in, installed, and working, bigbird and
sasquatch will serve as back-end collectors. All requests for data will
be referred to idd.tamu.edu for service, as this will be the front-end
of the cluster.
I'll post more on the change-over as its time approaches.
I do not expect the outage to last more than 4 hours. For that matter, I
don't expect it to last more than 15 minutes, but my luck hasn't been
stellar of late, so there's a fudge factor plugged in there.
gerry
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