The Outage: October 17-20, 2013

Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2013 at 03:48PM by GenePattern Team

The Outage is a scheduled, major four-day disruption to most Broad IT services. In preparation for our move into a new building the Broad IT Services group will move all central IT hardware to a new facility. During the move, which will take place from 12:01 am* Thursday, October 17 to 11:59pm Sunday, October 20, almost all of Broad's IT services will be unavailable.

*Please note the change in start time

Broad employees and associates may access more details on our intranet.

External users may read more information on the Broad website.

Users of any Broad Institute hosted GenePattern server should expect:

  • Our genepattern.broadinstitute.org server to be inaccessible
  • Any GenePattern analysis run via a Broad Institute Portal to be inaccessible.
  • Our website (and this blog) genepattern.org to be inaccessible
  • All our GenePattern provided module repositories to be inaccessible. This includes our Production, Beta and GPARC repositories.
  • GPARC to be inaccessible; either for submitting to, our downloading from.
  • Our help desk to be inaccessible. (However our Google Forum, will still be up, though our ability to diagnose and resolve issues will be, obviously, limited)
Prior to The Outage please contact us with any questions you may have. 
 
You may follow us on Twitter, Facebook or G+ for updates as they are available, or check our website where our Twitter Feed is displayed.
 
The Broad will also providing updates via Twitter 
 
 

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