WMCS has redesigned the PAWS cluster and built a new one in parallel. We would like people to try things out and makes sure it's ready to go. If you are a PAWS user and have some things you might like to try out, you can visit https://hub.paws.wmcloud.org and give it a shot. Please create a Phabricator task with the project tag #paws if you find any bugs or things that don't work as well as in the old cluster. We will leave both clusters live until August 7th (2020-08-07), when we will change paws.wmflabs.org to a redirect to the new domain.

Please be aware that it is running on the local sqlite database for now, and that may reduce the performance for things like launching notebooks under load. It will be using Toolsdb like the existing PAWS cluster after the final cut over.

For further details, please see: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2020_PAWS_migration

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Brooke Storm
SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
bstorm@wikimedia.org
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