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Possible Government Shutdown of CDCB


National news raises the possibility of a U.S. Government shutdown on October 1, 2015. One of the consequences of a shutdown is that all Government computer systems, including AGIL, would be turned off for the duration of the shutdown. The CDCB and AGIL are joint devoting significant resources to speed up the transfer of the Cooperator’s database and the genetic evaluation software to the CDCB servers, but the transition will not be completed by September 30. In order to ensure the release of the October 2015 monthly genomic evaluation, we will be adhering strictly to our published deadline and only data uploaded by Friday, September 25, 11:59 p.m. EST will be included in the run. This includes pedigree corrections uploaded by nominators. This should guarantee that a normal release can happen on October 6, regardless of whether or not a Government shutdown occurs.

A second consequence is that the weekly preliminary genomic prediction to be released on September 29 will include only those genotypes uploaded by Friday, September 25, 11:59 p.m. EST. Data uploaded later will be included in following week’s predictions.

CDCB apologizes for any disruption or extra work this may cause our service users, but CDCB is working to minimize the consequences of a situation beyond our control. Hopefully the political impasse can be resolved and the shutdown avoided.

When all operations have been switched to CDCB servers by the end of the year, such interruptions should not occur


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