Data Depot
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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...
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Depot Access Issues from ECN Systems
Update Working closely with ECN, RCAC engineers have deployed a new CIFS server to mitigate any incompatibilities. ECN users affected by this issue should connect to their Depot space though \\[datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu](http://datadepot2.rcac.purdu...
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As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Depot services have been returned to production. Users who were previously advised to connect to \\data...
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Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot and ECN computers, will be retired on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Kindly note that after our recent Data...
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The Data Depot central servers lost their connection to Depot and all rebooted around 11:45am EDT. Servers are already returning, but engineers are watching the situation closely. Scheduling on clusters is being paused. Cluster jobs might be able...
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A power event around 8:40 am this morning affected all Research Computing resources, along with networking, and other resources around campus. Networking is offline making all resources inaccessible. Networking is slowly coming back online around 9:3...
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Box.com Research Lab Folders available for use
Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Box.com Research Lab folders to facilitate easy data sharing and collaboration. Box Research Lab Folders are the ideal complement to the Research Data Depot, and will provide accessibility...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 9pm or earlier as...
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Unscheduled Outage to Multiple Systems
Hammer, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, WSC Hadoop, and Data Depot began experiencing issues with networking around 10:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 1:00pm if the issue...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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Unscheduled Data Depot windows network drive outage
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems, but remained available through other means of access (such as Windows Network Drive). Around 9:00am EDT on Tuesday, April 21st, 2020, the D...
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The Data Depot storage system began experiencing issues with No space left on device error messages around 10:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling on community clusters has been paus...
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Research Data Depot Consistency Checking Underway, Snapshot Schedule Affected
The Research Data Depot is currently undergoing a full filesystem consistency scan. While the scan is running, all backend servers within the GPFS filesystem are under load while checking the filesystem, in addition to serving data in the course of n...
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Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing in March, 2020. We are currently offering six 30-minute slots e...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...
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The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration. My Data Depot space is so slow after the migration! UPDATE: October 8, 2021: As of October 7, the back-ordered metadata su...
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Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT, the Data Depot storage service will be unavailable while it will be transitioned to new hardware. All Depot access methods (SCP/SFTP, Windows network drives, Globus, NFS exports, direct mounts on Research Compu...