Hammer
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The Hammer cluster has been successfully returned to full production. This concludes this maintenance. Update: July 18, 2017 5:01pm: The Hammer cluster has most of the reconfiguration complete, but work continues on a good portion of the nodes whic...
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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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All Research Computing systems suffered an unplanned outage Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at 8:15pm EDT due to a widespread power failure in the area. Thanks to diligent efforts all night and today by many teams across ITaP, all computational clusters h...
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Job Scheduling Issue on Clusters
As of Monday, April 16th, 2018 at 10:00am EDT, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are not properly scheduling new jobs due to a problem with the Moab scheduler. Existing jobs are unaffected. We are working with the vendor to address this and expect...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for CMS research at Purdue, the Hammer Community Cluster will receive an operating system upgrade to CentOS7. Hammer is currently scheduled to be upgraded on Monday, June 4th, 2018. Most...
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Hammer Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
The Hammer cluster will be taken down on Monday, June 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Hammer will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...
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Unscheduled network outage on Brown, Rice, Snyder and Hammer
The Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with scratch filesystems and network connectivity around 2:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused...
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On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of central cooling systems across data centers and upgrades to the research networking core. This will affect...
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Emergency Hammer Cluster Maintenance
The Hammer cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Hammer will have critical security patc...
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Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
Starting Monday, February 11, 2019, login access to the community clusters from off-campus will require using Purdue's virtual private network (VPN). As with any use of the Purdue VPN, access to community clusters through Purdue’s VPN will require Bo...
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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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Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with logins and a general slowdown around 3:10pm EST. This has been identified as being due to an issue on the /home/ filesystem. Engineers are continuing to examine this and are working to alleviate the issue r...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
At approximately, 8:30am EDT, the Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters became unavailable due to a campus power outage. While power has been restored, engineers are currently working returning the clusters to service. Job scheduling has been paus...
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Unscheduled data center outage
Several clusters have experienced network connectivity and/or power issues around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are working on assessing and analyzing the situation. Job scheduling on affected clusters has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We...
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Unscheduled Hammer outage - Closed
Update: The issues with the Hammer cluster has been resolved and the cluster is back in production. This outage is closed. Original: The Hammer cluster began experiencing issues around 10:10am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are...
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Work continues on bringing Hammer back to normal operation. Engineers have identified the source of the problem and are currently working to find a solution. We will provide another update by 3pm today.
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Hammer Community Cluster and CMS Storage Cluster Maintenance
The Hammer community cluster and CMS storage cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this tim...
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Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with the home file system around 12:30pm 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 a...
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Unscheduled power outage affecting Brown and Hammer
The Brown and Hammer clusters experienced a partial power outage overnight which caused them to operate at a reduced capacity. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this...
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Update: Hammer Cluster Maintenace
Update: As of 9:45am, the Hammer cluster has been returned to normal service. Job queues have been enabled and job scheduling has been resumed. We apologize for the disruption of service. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu. Original: Th...