@PG: More details please in postings about FAH Servers

[ParrLeyne]

In the "Update Thread", Dr. Pande posted:

We found a hardware issue with vspmf95, so we are taking the machine off line to work on it. more news as we have it

It would be helpful if some details regarding the impact of the outage would be described with the posting.

Does this server hand out WUs? Does it receive WUs? What does this mean to FAH users?

[toTOW]

Look in http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html for vspmf95 ... you'll find all the details you need ...

It's IP is 171.65.103.162 and as far as I remember, it's a server for uniprocessor clients.

[ParrLeyne]

Look in http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html for vspmf95 ... you'll find all the details you need ...

Thanks for the link.

I still say that it would would be appropriate for PG to include some basic details when posting about a server being offline.

It would save people from having to figure out the scope of the issue for themselves. PG knows those details, they just has to spend 20 seconds typing out the details in the update posting.

[7im]

If there is no impact, do they still need to post more details?

With several other CPU work servers available, there should be no impact. Of course, I suppose they should reiterate that to comfort the masses.