Notices

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CS IT STAFF AVAILABILITY

  • The CS IT Support staff operates out of Malone Hall. Our group is working a hybrid schedule with some of us working remotely on certain days, while others of our team are on campus.
  • We are available M-F, 8:30 to 5pm, but there may be certain times we might be online only.
  • Therefore, please remember to email support@cs.jhu.edu for assistance.
  • Also, please have Zoom available on your device(s), so that we can arrange to contact you using that method, as an alternative to in-person communication.
  • Steve DeBlasio, our accounts liaison, is providing a virtual version of his daily office hours for accounts, etc. Email support@cs.jhu.edu for details.


CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES (Unplanned & Planned)

UNPLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

None at this time.


PLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

Outage #1: CS Webserver Will Be Unavailable

WHAT: CS Webserver will be unavailable due server maintenance.
WHEN: Thursday, October 30, from 7am to 7:30am.
DETAILS:
On Thursday, October 30, at 7:00 am, we will be taking the department web server offline for some necessary maintenance. It should be offline for no more than half an hour.
During the maintenance window, the CS department website will be unreachable, as will any lab group or individual websites hosted by the CS IT group. The CS grad net webmail will be unavailable.
Web sites hosted elsewhere (e.g. a GitHub Pages site with a cs.jhu.edu hostname) will be unaffected. Other CS services will be unaffected.


Outage #2: CS Labs/Systems Will Be Unavailable

WHAT: Malone Hall MH 122 and Malone Hall G61, both the Masters and Ugrad sides of the lab, and all the lab Linux computers, will be closed to CS students due to an ACM Programming Contest.
WHEN: Starting Friday evening, November 7, 5pm through Saturday, November 8, 9pm.
DETAILS:
Both the MH 122 and G61 Masters and Ugrad Labs will be used for an ACM Programming Contest and will therefore be closed to those not participating in the contest.
Additionally, all of the labs' Linux computers (masters1 through masters16 and ugrad1 through ugrad24) will be unavailable during the time period referenced above.
  • During the lab closure times, compute servers, gradx.cs.jhu.edu, gradz.cs.jhu.edu, ugradx.cs.jhu.ed, and ugradz.cs.jhu.edu will continue to be available remotely, via SSH.
  • We have to take down the lab systems late that Friday afternoon. At the end of the ACM contest that Saturday night, the coordinators of that contest will be turning our lab computer systems back on. Most should boot normally. But, if some do not, just trying using an alternate one in the lab. We'll be back in the Monday afterwards and can check on any systems that didn't boot normally. (And don't forget, as mentioned above our compute servers -- gradx, gradz, ugradx, ugradz -- will continue to be remotely available, even if the lab systems are not.)
  • The printers in MH 122 and MH G61 will remain online, but, please pick up your printouts outside of the contest hours.


CS COMPUTING LAB AVAILABILITY

MH 122 (CS Undergrad Lab/Collaboration room) is available for in-person access, except for what's listed above.
MH G61 (CS Masters/Ugrad Labs) is available for in-person access, except for what's listed above.


AUDIO/VISUAL (A/V) OUTAGES

None at this time.