I have just done a final rsync of home directories from notebook1001 over
to notebook1003.

*Do not use notebook1001 anymore.*

I will leave notebook1001 only for another day in case there or issues, but
plan to start the decom process this week.

Thanks all!



On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> *tl;dr stop using notebook1001 by Monday April 2nd, use notebook1003
> instead.*
>
> *(If you don’t have production access, you can ignore this email.)*
>
> As part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183145, we’ve ordered new
> hardware to replace the aging notebook1001.  The new servers are ready to
> go, so we need to schedule a deprecation timeline for notebook1001.  That
> timeline is Monday April 2nd.  After that, your work on notebook1001 will
> not longer be accessible.  Instead you should use notebook1003 (or
> notebook1004).
>
> But there is good news too!  Last week I rsynced everyone’s home
> directories from notebook1001 over to notebook1003.  I also upgraded the
> default virtualenv your notebooks run from.  Your notebook files should all
> be accessible on notebook1003.  However, the version of Python3 changed
> from 3.4 to 3.5 during this upgrade.  Dependencies that your notebook uses
> that you installed on notebook1001 may not be available at first.  You
> might need to redo a pip install those dependencies into the new notebook
> Python 3.5 virtualenv.  (I can’t really give you explicit instructions to
> do that, as I don’t know what you use for your notebooks.)
>
> I’ll do a final rsync any newer files in home directories from
> notebook1001 on Monday April 2nd.  If you’ve been working on notebook1001
> since after March 15th, this should get everything up to date on
> notebook1003 before notebook1001 goes away.  BUT!  *Do not work on both
> notebook1001 and notebook1003*!  My final rsync will keep the most
> recently modified version of files from either server.
>
>
> OOooOo and there’s even more good news!  I’ve made the notebooks able to
> access system site packages, and installed a ton of useful packages
> <https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/statistics/manifests/packages.pp#L77-L98>
> by default.  pandas, scipy, requests, etc.  If there’s something else you
> think you might need, let us know.  Or just pip install it into your
> notebook.
>
> Additionally, pyhive has been installed too, so you should be able to more
> easily access Hive directly from a python notebook.
>
> I’ve updated docs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAP#Usage,
> please take a look.
>
> If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask, either here on or
> phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183145.
>
> - Andrew Otto & Analytics Engineering
>
>
>
>
>
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