Tempest Frequently Asked Questions

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Tempest Frequently Answered Questions

Tempest will be decommissioned at noon on April 23, 2008.

Yes. Home directories will be retained for six months following the decommission of tempest. During this six months period users may request that their home directory be restored to a machine of their choice. Please fill out a trouble ticket requesting a restore including what machine you would like your files restored to.

No. We will not backup files in your /ptmp directory. You will need to make sure that you have either saved your data to the MSS or transfered your files to the new data analysis cluster.

To transfer files from tempest to the data analysis cluster. First login to one of the nodes on the data analysis cluster (gale or breeze). Then decide where you want to put the files from tempest. If you already have data on the cluster, you might want to make a directory to put your tempest files in so you don't overwrite any files. Then login to tempest and use the 'scp' command to transfer your files. For this example we will move our entire /ptmp directory and put the files in a /ptmp/joe/tempest directory.

     tempest [1] scp -r /ptmp/joe gale.scd.ucar.edu:/ptmp/joe/tempest

Yes. The new machines are a different hardware architecture and a run a different operating system than tempest. An important thing to note is that tempest was a big-endian architecture while the new machines are little-endian.