<div dir="ltr">What about the rest of us? we would just come so we could look at the walls, Nothing will be running with out the power.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Christopher Paolini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paolini@engineering.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">paolini@engineering.sdsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Al,<br>
<br>
Scheduling a campus-wide power outage two days before Christmas Eve, and<br>
a restoration on Christmas Eve, is a terrible idea. We need to<br>
reschedule this outage so it occurs during normal working days so<br>
university IT staff can physically be on campus to shutdown, and bring<br>
back online, critical computer and network infrastructure.<br>
<br>
Many research active faculty and graduate students need to remotely<br>
access servers and computing clusters during the winter break for<br>
running numerical simulations (e.g. computational fluid dynamics<br>
simulations, structural analysis computations, geochemical and<br>
geoemechanics simulations, electromagnetic simulations, electronic<br>
structure modeling, etc.).<br>
<br>
Many IT staff personnel who manage university network and computational<br>
resources will leave the San Diego region for Christmas vacation several<br>
days before Dec. 22, primarily to use accrued vacation time that will<br>
expire if not used by Dec. 31. Almost all university personnel will be<br>
with their families and/or on vacation the day of Christmas Eve<br>
(Saturday, December 24).<br>
<br>
If you shutdown power on the 22nd, IT staff will need to shutdown<br>
computing infrastructure many days earlier, before they leave on<br>
vacation. Asking staff members to come to campus on Christmas Day to<br>
bring computing infrastructure back online is unreasonable. The<br>
consequence of scheduling an outage December 22-24 is that critical<br>
computing infrastructure will remain offline and remotely inaccessible<br>
until IT personnel return from vacation, typically on January 3. This<br>
will result in an effective two-week loss of remote computational<br>
infrastructure usage by faculty and students, and may have a significant<br>
impact on research.<br>
<br>
In addition to impacting university computational infrastructure, many<br>
faculty who operate wet laboratories have 24/7 refrigeration<br>
requirements. Fume hoods containing hazardous or volatile materials<br>
require constant power to drive fans in the hood exhaust system.<br>
<br>
The power outage and restoration should be rescheduled to occur during<br>
normal working times, to allow IT staff to shutdown and bring equipment<br>
back online before leaving on vacation.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
Chris,<br>
<br>
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Christopher Paolini, PhD<br>
College of Engineering IT Manager<br>
San Diego State University<br>
<a href="mailto:paolini@engineering.sdsu.edu">paolini@engineering.sdsu.edu</a><br>
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