Research System News
- LustreC filesystem unavailable May 12 - May 13, 2013 - Resolved
May 13, 2013
- Unscheduled Fortress Outage - April 29, 2013
April 29, 2013
- Network outage affecting Peregrine1 cluster - 4/24/2013
April 16, 2013
- Scheduling paused on Carter cluster - 4/16/13
April 16, 2013
- Fortress tape library upgrade, March 28-29, 2013 (Updated 4:25pm 3/29)
March 28, 2013
- Unscheduled Outage to LustreC - Resolved
March 14, 2013
- samba.rcac.purdue.edu maintenance outage
March 08, 2013
- Scheduled Maintenance - WinHPC Cluster (Mar 12, 2013)
March 01, 2013
- Scratch Filesystem Problem
February 22, 2013
- Chilled water outage in MATH - Jan. 28, 2013
January 28, 2013
- Steele Scheduler Outage
January 24, 2013
- chilled water outage in MATH - 1/10/2013
January 10, 2013
- Coates: Unexpected Power Outage in MATH
January 08, 2013
- Scheduled Maintenance - RCAC home directory upgrades (12/29/12 - 1/4/2013)
January 04, 2013
- Scheduling paused on ITaP research clusters - 12/1/2012
December 01, 2012
- Software Stack Changes during 12/29/12 - 1/4/2013 Scheduled Maintenance
November 29, 2012
- Scheduled Maintenance for Radon Cluster - 27 November 2012
November 27, 2012
- Scheduled Maintenance - October 2012
October 09, 2012
- ADIC Scalar 10k tape library maintenance - 9/7/2012
September 06, 2012
- Unscheduled Power outage in Math Datacenter
August 21, 2012
- Batch system and module changes on RCAC systems
July 23, 2012
- Scheduled Maintenance - August 2012
July 17, 2012
- Scheduler Outage on Steele
May 25, 2012
- Scheduled Maintenance - May 2012
April 13, 2012
- Unscheduled HPSS outage
April 11, 2012
- Unscheduled Samba Outage
April 11, 2012
- Partial outage affecting some Coates queues
April 10, 2012
- Unscheduled outage to MATH datacenter - 3/30/2012 (Updated)
April 02, 2012
- PBS unavailable on Rossmann cluster - 3/22/2012
March 22, 2012
- Unscheduled outage to Rossmann cluster - March 15-16
March 20, 2012
- System Maintenance - Spring Break 2012
February 21, 2012
- Lustre unavailable on Hansen cluster
February 07, 2012
- Regular account expiration starting on ITaP research clusters
February 07, 2012
- Coates Scheduling unavailable - 1/30/2012
January 30, 2012
- Hansen Network Maintenance - 8:00AM, November 17, 2011.
January 30, 2012
- Fortress: ADIC Scalar 10k tape robot unavailable (1/4/2012)
January 09, 2012
- Miner Downtime Scheduled for Jan 4
December 20, 2011
- Hansen: unscheduled outage to Lustre scratch (12/6/2011)
December 06, 2011
- Fortress: ADIC Scalar 10k tape robot unavailable (12/1/2011)
December 02, 2011
- Hansen MPI Software Changes - December 16, 2011
November 22, 2011
- Unscheduled LustreA Outage
November 15, 2011
- Optimizing MPI performance on Hansen
November 03, 2011
- Fortress archive upgrade to HPSS Oct 7-14
October 22, 2011
- Unscheduled Steele outage - October 11, 2011
October 11, 2011
- Coates PBS scheduler issues - 8/17/2011 (Updated 8/26/2011)
October 06, 2011
- Hansen Cluster is in Production
September 15, 2011
- Fortress archive system being upgraded to HPSS
August 18, 2011
- Storage maintenance: August 8, 2011
August 18, 2011
- MATH Datacenter upgrades, starting Friday, August 5
August 15, 2011
- Steele Cluster Maintenance: August 8-9, 2011
August 09, 2011
- Calumet-West Lafayette Network Disruption
July 05, 2011
- All RCAC systems unavailable some portion of Tue-Fri, 3/29-4/1
April 01, 2011
- Coates scratch directory changes on 2/22 and 3/31
April 01, 2011
- Moffett.rcac SiCortex system unavailable 3/21-22
March 22, 2011
- DXUL/Fortress archival storage system in degraded mode 2/23
February 23, 2011
- Lustre scratch storage system unavailable 2/3-4
February 10, 2011
- Steele "c" nodes temporarily unavailable 1/14
January 14, 2011
- Coates and Rossmann cluster job scheduling temporarily suspended 10/30
October 30, 2010
- RCAC front-end/job-submission system reboots 10/29
October 30, 2010
- Steele Linux cluster temporarily unavailable, 10/11-12/2010
October 18, 2010
- Steele Linux cluster temporarily unavailable, 9/8/2010
September 17, 2010
- DXUL/Fortress archival storage system temporarily unavailable, 5/25
May 25, 2010
- Cooling problems on coates-b, -c, and -e nodes Tuesday, 4/6
April 06, 2010
- Emergency VMWare System Maintenance Friday, 3/26
March 26, 2010
- Emergency VMWare system maintenance Tuesday, 3/23
March 24, 2010
- Temporary job scheduling change Friday, 2/5
March 19, 2010
- Scratch filesystem work notice Mon, 2/8
March 19, 2010
- Coates cluster network problems Tue-Wed, 1/5-6
January 06, 2010
- RCAC front-end systems to be rebooted Tuesday, 11/24.
November 25, 2009
- Pete cluster front-end systems to be rebooted Wednesday, 11/11
November 13, 2009
- Purdue partnership for putting idle computers to work on research wins international award
November 05, 2009
- RCAC system maintenance scheduled for October 9-13
October 19, 2009
- DXUL/Fortress archival storage system unavailable Thursday, 9/17
September 18, 2009
- DXUL/Fortress archival storage system unavailable Monday, 9/14
September 14, 2009
- Scratch storage outage Thursday, 9/10
September 14, 2009
- Radon cluster unavailable Tuesday-Wednesday, 8/25-26
August 26, 2009
- Steele job scheduling temporarily paused Monday, 8/10
August 25, 2009
- Steele Linux cluster unavailable Tuesday-Wednesday, 8/4-5
August 10, 2009
- Submission to Steele standby queues temporarily disabled Monday, 7/28
August 04, 2009
- RCAC Home and Scratch directories unavailable Tuesday, 7/14
July 16, 2009
- Steele Linux Cluster software upgrade postponed
July 14, 2009
- Steele Linux Cluster unavailable Tuesday-Thursday, 7/14-16
July 12, 2009
- SiCortext system unavailable Wednesday, 5/27
June 07, 2009
- Steele "C" nodes unavailable Friday, May 29
June 07, 2009
- DXUL/fortress tape library out of service, Friday, June 5
June 07, 2009
- RCAC system and data center maintenance 3/17-19
March 23, 2009
- Unscheduled power outage in MATH Tuesday, 2/10
February 12, 2009
- PBS job scheduling temporarily suspended Friday, 1/30
January 30, 2009
- SiCortex system unavailable Wednesday-Thursday, 1/21-22
January 27, 2009
- SGI Altix system maintenance Tuesday, January 13
January 13, 2009
- RCAC system maintenance scheduled for January 6-7
January 08, 2009
- SiCortex system unavailable Thursday-Friday, 12/11-12
December 15, 2008
- SGI Altix system unavailable Wednesday-Thursday, 11/5-6
November 17, 2008
- DXUL/fortress system maintenance scheduled for Thursday, Nov 13
November 17, 2008
- Caesar PBS Scheduling & Scratch Down, Oct. 21-22
October 22, 2008
- Steele PBS Scheduling Down, Sept. 11-12
September 12, 2008
- Steele-A Partial Power Outage, Sept. 12
September 12, 2008
- Fortress/DXUL Emergency Follow-up Maintenance Wednesday, September 10
September 11, 2008
- Pete cluster temporarily unavailable Tuesday, September 2
September 03, 2008
- SGI Altix system maintenance Tuesday, September 2
September 03, 2008
- SGI Altix system unavailable Thursday, August 28
September 01, 2008
- Emergency maintenance for RCAC Linux systems Wed-Fri, August 27-29
September 01, 2008
- Resolved: Emergency DXUL/fortress maintenance Tuesday, August 26
August 26, 2008
- Resolved: Emergency DXUL/fortress maintenance Monday, August 25
August 25, 2008
- DXUL/fortress maintenance scheduled for Thursday, August 21
August 21, 2008
- Resolved; Unscheduled outage of CMS equipment in MANN, Monday August 18
August 18, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled SGI Altix outage Thursday, August 14
August 14, 2008
- Radon Linux cluster unavailable Thursday, August 14
August 04, 2008
- Gold IBM AIX cluster to be rebooted Tuesday, August 5
August 04, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled DXUL archival storage system outage Wednesday, July 30
July 30, 2008
- SiCortex system to be rebooted Wednesday, July 16
July 16, 2008
- Resolved: Power outage affects CMS-related systems in MANN 112 Monday, July 14
July 14, 2008
- Resolved: Omni.cc unavailable due to disk drive failure Thursday, July 10
July 10, 2008
- System maintenance scheduled for gray.rcac Thursday, July 10
July 08, 2008
- Radon.rcac to be rebooted Tuesday afternoon, July 8
July 01, 2008
- Resolved: RCAC system maintenance scheduled for July 1
June 30, 2008
- Resolved: DXUL/fortress system unavailable as of Wednesday, June 18
June 18, 2008
- Resolved: DXUL/fortress system unavailable Monday, June 16
June 16, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled service interruption Friday, June 13
June 13, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled RCAC scratch fileserver outage Wednesday, June 11
June 11, 2008
- Pete Linux cluster reboots scheduled for Thursday, June 5
June 04, 2008
- DXUL/fortress system maintenance scheduled for Thursday, May 29
May 27, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled DXUL/fortress outage Monday, May 26
May 26, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled DXUL/fortress outage Sunday, May 25
May 25, 2008
- Resolved: Unscheduled DXUL/fortress outage Saturday, May 24
May 24, 2008
- Final update: Unscheduled Steele cluster outage Thursday, May 15-16
May 15, 2008
- SGI Altix 4700 hardware maintenance scheduled for Wednesday, May 14
May 08, 2008
- IBM SP hardware maintenance scheduled for Wednesday, May 14
May 08, 2008
- Steele cluster available for use on Tuesday, 5/6
May 06, 2008
- Network maintenance scheduled for Steele cluster on Tuesday, 5/6
May 03, 2008
- Brief interruption to Steele cluster access on Friday, 5/2
May 01, 2008
- RCAC systems returned to service Wednesday, April 30
April 30, 2008
- RCAC systems unavailable Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29-30
April 29, 2008
- RCAC systems unavailable Monday, April 28, 2008
April 17, 2008
- Security announcement for cloud.cc, IBM SP,and Regatta users
April 03, 2008
- RCAC scratch file server outage
April 03, 2008
- RCAC system maintenance scheduled for March 11-13, 2008
February 20, 2008
- Normal job scheduling resumed on the Lear and Hamlet clusters
January 29, 2008
- Lear Cluster Idled Monday Night, January 28, 2008
January 28, 2008
- PBS job scheduling reenabled on Radon Linux cluster
January 18, 2008
- PBS job scheduling temporarily disabled on Radon Linux cluster
January 18, 2008
- RCAC systems unavailable January 8-10, 2007
January 08, 2008
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