The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, June 3, 2015 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
Server updates on 2015apr23 were successful
April 23, 2015 by
The departmental servers are working fine after the updates. The mail server reboot was postponed so email was not affected this time.
Server updates at 4:00pm on Thursday April 23, 2015
April 22, 2015 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Thursday afternoon, Apr 23, 2015 starting at 4:00pm which will require rebooting. Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
MATHEMATICA updated to latest stable version (10.0.2)
April 6, 2015 by
MATHEMATICA has been updated to 10.0.2 (the latest stable version) on sphere. Type mathematica (for a graphical interface) or math (for a command-line interface) on sphere to access this new version.
MATLAB updated to latest stable version (R2015a)
April 6, 2015 by
MATLAB has been updated to R2015a (the latest stable version) on sphere. Type matlab on sphere to access this new version.
New network switch installation and server updates on 2015mar18 were successful
March 18, 2015 by
The new departmental network switch was installed and appears to be working well.
The departmental servers also seem to be working fine after the updates.
Networking and server updates at 4:00pm on Wednesday March 18, 2015
March 16, 2015 by
Starting at 4:00pm on Wednesday, Mar 18 until approximately 5pm we will be upgrading the main departmental network connection to the University backbone as well as doing the usual Wednesday server updates. We expect that the networking should be out for at most a half-hour.
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, March 18, 2015 which will require rebooting. Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
Network switch update completion from 2pm to 5pm on Wednesday, March 11, 2015
March 6, 2015 by
The second half of the new network switches will be installed and configured on Wednesday (March 11, 2015) between 2pm and 5pm. During that time period we expect that the network connection in any particular office will be offline for at most a half-hour. The new switches are more secure and support 1Gbps ethernet. An announcement will be made if upgrading the main departmental network link to the University backbone will require an extensive downtime.
Network switch updates from 11am to 3pm on Wednesday, March 4, 2015
March 2, 2015 by
We will be updating the network infrastructure in Bahen on Wednesday (March 4, 2015) between 11am and 3pm, with new switches. During that time period we expect that the network connection in any particular office will be offline for at most a half-hour. The new switches are more secure and support 1Gbps ethernet.
Server updates on 2015jan28 were successful
January 28, 2015 by
The departmental servers are working fine after the updates.
coxeter and mail were back a little before 5:30pm.
