Please note, ANCHOR crashed twice yesterday (Monday, Oct.8th), at approximately 6:30am and 10:30pm.

Each crash resulted in approximately 15 minutes downtime, along with "rapid termination" of all active processes. It is believed the crash is a result of ongoing / outstanding hardware issues with this system. It is likely that retirement of this hardware is the only / best option remaining.

The ongoing work of deploying a "new anchor" will be accellerated in response to these stability issues on anchor. As a concrete schedule is resolved, updates will be posted to this website.

Unforunately, there are various routine data processing jobs which will render this migration potentially best to take place after Nov/1/07. Pending stability of anchor, this will be the target-week for the migration.

UPDATE: (Oct-10-07 am)

NOTE that anchor crashed again last night at ~5:30pm, with similar symptoms / behaviour as previous recent crashes.