It wasn't very graceful. The system disk of Genome, which has been in service since 2001, just plain expired. I should have recorded the sound of it half-spinning-up then spinning down. Genome hosted scheduling programs used by 300 users (set up and administered by Leutz Buon), and for a long time was used for running a SAGE analysis program developed by Li Cai, formerly of our staff, now at Rutgers, running his own lab.
The scheduling programs have been moved to RESEARCH4 and were up and running at 11:20 on Tuesday 3/24. The SAGE analysis programs had long ago moved to another venue. We don't believe there were any active files on Genome over last weekend when the drive failed. We've restored the entire contents of genome to an archive on research4. The files will be compressed. They are, at any rate, available from tape.
If you had files on Genome.dfci.harvard.edu that we are unaware of, please contact research computing and let us know.