NOTICE: This version of the NSF Unidata web site (archive.unidata.ucar.edu) is no longer being updated.
Current content can be found at unidata.ucar.edu.

To learn about what's going on, see About the Archive Site.

991201: NCEP IBM outage-ADMIN NOTICE NOUS42 KWNO (fwd)

NOTE: The nws-changes mailing list is no longer active. The list archives are made available for historical reasons.


876 
NOUS42 KWNO 011717
SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION
CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC
1700Z UTC WED DEC 1 1999

011700Z...SCHEDULED IBM OUTAGE...
ON MONDAY DECEMBER 6 THE IBM COMPUTERS AT BOWIE WILL BE SHUT DOWN
FROM 1100Z UNTIL 2400Z...PRODUCTION WILL BE SWITCHED DURING THAT
TIME TO CRAY 5 BACKUP...PRODUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE AS FOLLOWS...

A.  12Z ETA WILL BE THE 80KM CRAY 5 VERSION
B.  THE OLD ETA BUFR SOUNDING FILES WILL BE AVAILABLE
C.  THE NEW ETA BUFR FILES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE.
D.  18Z ETA WILL BE THE HI RES AFWA MM5 BACKUP VERSION
E.  FSL RUC2 BACKUP WILL BE INSTITUTED AGAIN
F.  THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER ENSEMBLES CREATED AFTER 1100Z
G.  ALL MODEL PRODUCTION WILL BE SLOWER DURING THIS PERIOD
H.  00Z CYCLE MRF MODEL SHOULD COMPLETE BEFORE THE IBM OUTAGE

WEINBRENNER/SDM/NCO/NCEP


---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
  • 1999 messages navigation, sorted by:
    1. Thread
    2. Subject
    3. Author
    4. Date
    5. ↑ Table Of Contents
  • Search the nws-changes archives: