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Fortress

  • Unscheduled HPSS outage

    Update - April 11, 2012 240pm At around 240pm, ITaP engineers have restored communications between the HPSS system and the tape library. Access to Fortress from Samba, HSI/HTAR and other methods has been restored. I apologize for the inconvenience th...

  • Fortress: ADIC Scalar 10k tape robot unavailable (1/4/2012)

    Update - 1/9/2012 The repairs to the ADIC tape library have been completed and Fortress' tape functionality is back in operation. Update - 1/6/2012 Following work today by vendor engineers, the latest estimate for the ADIC tape robot's return to serv...

  • Fortress: ADIC Scalar 10k tape robot unavailable

    Update 12/2/11 (4:15pm) The tape robot has been returned to service and Fortress is back in production. Please contact us at rcac-help@purdue.edu if you encounter further issues. Update 12/2/11: The ADIC Scalar 10K robot is temporarily down again wit...

  • Fortress archive upgrade to HPSS

    UPDATE: Archive Conversion moved to Oct. 7-14 Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL), Fortress is being upgraded to new, more powerfu...

  • Fortress archive system being upgraded to HPSS

    Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL), Fortress is being upgraded to new, more powerful software: the High Performance Storage Syste...