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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis A. Isgur)
Tue Apr 11 13:35:52 2000
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From: William Wohlfarth <wpwohlfa@PLANT.MIT.EDU>
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'Jonathon Weiss'
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Subject: RE: FW: Bldgs. 17A, 31, 33, 35 and 37 - 4/20 PM - 4/21 AM Shutdow
n Re quest (Normal Electrical Power)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:40:19 -0400
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I've postponed the shutdown until June 8th/9th...
Bill
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> From: Jonathon Weiss[SMTP:jweiss@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:04 AM
> To: William Wohlfarth
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> Subject: Re: FW: Bldgs. 17A, 31, 33, 35 and 37 - 4/20 PM - 4/21 AM
> Shutdown Re quest (Normal Electrical Power)
>
>
> Hi Bill, Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you.
>
> > I hear you, and maybe we can just pick it up on another power source..
> >
> > The problem with postponing is that the new Bldg 35/33 project will need
> to
> > cut their new substation into the same loop fairly soon (June), and the
> > utility expansion project and the utility relocation for Stata all
> affect
> > the 13.8kv power distribution loops and the same resources
> (June/July)...
> >
> > I'm concerned that if we don't get moving...I'll miss the window. This
> > particular shutdown has been in the works (unoffically) for 2
> years...and I
> > need to do it twice , a few weeks apart.
> >
> > If I have to cancel again ..so be it...but is there a win/win way to get
> > this done and keep you guys going?
>
> Well, there are two issues. The first one is power/cooling for
> 37-322. This the server room that I care about and it's quite
> possible that you can come up with alternate power for that room, I
> don't know what the options are. The room only contains 10 computers
> or so, so the power/cooling requirements aren't even that large. The
> second problem is the Athena cluster (37-312,318,332). This is
> actually teh responsibilty of the Athena Cluster services group (Brian
> Murphy, Lou Isgur and others), but I'm sure they aren't going to want
> to close this room this late in the term, and I think it's will be a
> lot harder to find alternate power for this much stuff. Final exams
> end on Friday 5/19. If there is any way we can wait till then, we'd
> still need to deal with 37-322, but I think people will feel more
> comfortable about closing the cluster. (You should talk this over
> with the people from the Athean Cluster Services group tho, as this is
> really their department.) I also gather that this would make your
> schedule really tight, I don't know if it is too tight or not tho.
>
> Jonathon
>
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