Conte
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...
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Degraded performance of several systems
We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...
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Software stack changes and upgrades
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack on the clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel compiler and associ...
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The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at September 27, 2016 7:00am - September 28, 2016 11:59pm EDT, for Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters. The cluster will return to partial production by midnight that day, but will remain at re...
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Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...
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Security vulnerability patch impacts debugging
Due to a recently found vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (known as the Dirty-COW vulnerability), an emergency patch has been applied on the cluster nodes. This patch is necessary to avoid exploitation of the vulnerability. Unfortunately, the patch i...
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Conte is back in production, and jobs have started running. Thank you for your patience. ===== Because of additional work required to fix a configuration problem, this maintenance is running past the scheduled end time. We are extending the outage...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Conte
The scratch filesystem serving Conte is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Conte has been paused while storage engineers addres...
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Clusters to switch to hierarchical modules
Carter, Conte, Hammer, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder have been converted to hierarchical modules. All front-ends have been converted, and nodes will update over the next couple of hours. Running jobs will not be impacted by this change. If you hav...
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Conte and Hathi Cluster Maintenance
The Conte and Hathi clusters have been updated and returned to full production. This is a gentle reminder that the Conte and Hathi clusters will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance beginning at Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 at 8:00am EST. Please sa...
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Clusters to complete transition to hierarchy modules
The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longer work so be sure to double check your PBS job scripts and output for any old module names. We have...
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As of 2:35 pm, Conte cluster is returned to service. Scheduling is resumed in all queues. Update The source of the problem has been identified and the fix is underway. We anticipate returning Conte to service by 3pm today. Original message The Conte...
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Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you encounter any lingering issues please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu Original Message Some core...
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Removal of netcdf and hdf5 system-level library installations
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries include netcdf, hdf5, and several related packages. This change should have limited impact as module...
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Unscheduled outages on portions of clusters
Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are back in full production. Job scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. Please let us know if you see any lingering issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. UPDATE July 20, 2017 2:54pm Power has been restored to...
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After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28, 2017, all scratch storage systems will begin purging files which have not been accessed (for either...
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A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all systems while this issue is being add...
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Conte Cluster Emergency Maintenance
The Conte Cluster has been returned to production. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to rcac-help@purdue.edu. This is a gentle reminder that the Conte cluster will be offline tomorrow (Wed) beginning at 8:00am for an emerge...
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The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 9:00pm. During this time, Conte will have maintena...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...