Gautschi
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Gautschi cluster maintenance – June 24, 2026
The Gautschi community cluster will undergo scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, beginning at 8:00am EDT to 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Gautschi will be unavailable for all batch and interactive work until maintenance is complete. To...
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Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. The issue reoccurred after our earlier restoration, and engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gilbreth are paused to preven...
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Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. The issue reoccurred after our earlier restoration, and engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gilbreth remain paused to pre...
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Depot issue impacting multiple schedulers
We are currently experiencing an issue affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively investigating, and we will provide an update as soon as more information is available. Schedulers have been paused on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gil...
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Purdue student attends GHC 25 with WHPC Scholarship
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group offers scholarships to support students who wish to travel to major computing conferences. Last fall, the group sponsored a graduate student to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2025,...
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Brief Data Depot disruption, community cluster scheduling paused and restored
RCAC experienced a disruption in service on the Data Depot storage system this evening, which required us to temporarily pause job scheduling on the community clusters. The issue has been resolved, schedulers have been resumed.
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Changes to Scratch Storage Policies
We are updating how we describe and manage scratch storage to keep our systems fast, reliable, and fair for everyone. Following good data practices makes scratch more performant and more useful for all users. By keeping master copies of important dat...
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Data Depot storage issue, cluster operations currently paused
We are investigating an issue with the Data Depot storage system that is impacting dependent services. Users may see failures connecting via Windows/Samba and jobs are affected because all clusters are currently paused while recovery work proceeds. O...
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Issues with Microsoft Authenticator Push Notifications
We’re aware that some users are having trouble seeing Microsoft Authenticator push prompts during sign-in. Authentication is still working, but the experience may be confusing or inconvenient. We wanted to share what’s going on and how you can work a...
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Important: Use Microsoft Authenticator to Access Purdue RCAC Resources Starting May 11, 2026
May 12 Update Some users are experiencing issues with push notifications; see current Microsoft Authenticator Trouble Announcement notice here. https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/7738 Beginning May 11, 2026, RCAC will move from Duo Mobile to Microsoft...
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Kernel Upgrade on Clusters Nodes
We are performing rolling reboots on all login and compute nodes for critical kernel upgrades. Nodes will reboot in stages, so resources remain available.
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All Clusters & Services Restored
At approximately 9:40pm EDT Monday, April 27th, 2026, a campus-wide power outage due to weather impacted all research computing clusters and storage systems. Power has been restored, and engineers are currently bringing systems back online in an orde...
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RCAC Maintenance Complete – All Systems Available
The ongoing RCAC maintenance originally scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM today (Thursday, April 23) has been extended. The new expected completion time is 9:00 PM tonight, Thursday, April 23. All RCAC systems and Research Network services will remain...
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Data Depot is up, but some operations may be slower than normal while recovery work continues
Data Depot is currently experiencing degraded performance. Service is available, but background recovery processes are still running and may slow access to Depot. Our team is continuing to monitor the system and work toward full restoration.
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Data Depot is currently unavailable
We are currently experiencing an unplanned outage affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively working to restore service, but there is no ETA to share yet. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available.
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Power Outage Impacting Multiple Clusters — Recovery Underway
At approximately 6:00 AM EDT, a power outage impacted systems in the Math Data Center. Most services have now been restored. Due to the outage, some jobs on Gilbreth did not requeue automatically. Users should check the status of any jobs that were r...
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Scheduling paused on Gautschi CPU cluster due to cooling leak
We have identified a cooling leak in Gautschi cluster that impacts CPU nodes and are actively working to resolve the issue. **How does this impact you? ** We have paused job scheduling on the CPU nodes. You can continue to submit jobs to Gautschi nod...
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MATH Datacenter Cooling issue - Job scheduling paused on Anvil/Gautschi
The MATH datacenter started experiencing issues with cooling systems around 12pm. Job scheduling on the Anvil and Gautschi clusters was paused shortly after and scheduling resumed at 1:30pm.
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Data Depot Filesystem issue: Scheduling Resumed
An internal portion of the Data Depot filesystem is currently offline, as a result, all scheduling has been paused until this issue is resolved. Impact to you Attempts to read files that are on the affected storage may result in error messages Our IT...
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February 5 Maintenance – Math Data Center Upgrades and Service Impact
On Thursday, February 5, RCAC will perform planned maintenance in the MATH data center to support cooling upgrades and capacity improvements as part of the ongoing MATH datacenter renovation project. During this maintenance window, several clusters w...