Jove Shutdown Imminent

By Dr. Philip Baczewski, Associate Director of Academic Computing

We announced in the November, 2001 issue of Benchmarks Online that the system named Jove would be shut down no later than August 31, 2002. As it turns out, the shutdown date is sooner than that.

jove.acs.unt.edu is being replaced and decommissioned, effective 30 May, 2002. Jove's hardware is no longer supported by Sun, and so it is time to replace it before something goes wrong. The new host will be named neptune.acs.unt.edu. Neptune will be much faster than jove, based on an MMS Pentium 4 system, for which support is readily available.

Current account holders who have accessed Jove since October of 2001 will have their accounts transferred to the new system automatically. If you are in this group, all of your files from your home directory on jove will be copied to your new home directory on neptune. Previous account holders who have not accessed Jove since October 2001 can request that their accounts be restored by contacting the Computing Center helpdesk at helpdesk@unt.edu or 920-565-2324. No new accounts will be granted at this time.

Pine and tin should function as expected on neptune. Please address comments to operator@unt.edu if you use other services on jove and we will determine whether we can provide them on neptune. Any questions about this change can be directed to Dr. Philip Baczewski (baczewski@unt.edu) Associate Director of Academic Computing.