Article #1234: 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)....
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Article #1259: 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 r...
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Article #1197: All Systems Maintenance
On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of centra...
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Article #1205: 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...
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Article #1192: 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 d...
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Article #1186: Hammer Upgrade to CentOS7
In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for CMS research at Purdue, the Hammer Community Cluster will receive an operating syst...
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Article #1178: 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...
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Article #1160: All Clusters Outage
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. Th...
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Article #992: Scratch Purge Policy Change
After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28,...
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Article #1032: 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 a...
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Article #1018: Hammer Cluster Maintenance
The Hammer cluster has been successfully returned to full production. This concludes this maintenance. Update: July 18, 2017 5:01pm: The Hammer clus...
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Article #987: Data Depot Outage
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...
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Article #982: Scratch system failure on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
*** Update *** As of 7:00 pm, the problem on the scratch system has been corrected, and scheduling has resumed on all three affected clusters - Rice,...
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Article #967: 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 longe...
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Article #971: Emergency Maintenance on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
As of 7:15pm, all queues on these clusters have resumed scheduling. Nodes will continue to be upgraded as they finish current jobs and become availab...
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Article #954: Rice, Snyder, Hammer, Scholar Maintenance
The Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters have been returned to service. Please note that Thinlinc clients and web browser access can be found at...
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Article #948: Partial scratch outages on Rice, Snyder, Carter, Scholar and Hammer
The scratch filesystems serving Carter, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder started behaving abnormally this morning. This may have affected some jobs,...
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Article #943: Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Snyder, and Hammer
The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch...
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Article #941: Emergency Security Patching of RCAC Clusters
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgra...
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Article #924: 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 wil...