Negishi
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...
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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 28, 2024 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have minor...
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The Negishi cluster began experiencing issues with SLURM accounting around 8:00am 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...
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In-person Coffee-Hour Consultation Location Change
Our in-person consulting hours (a.k.a. "coffee hour") location will be changing effectively immediately. RCAC staff have offered in-person consulting at the Convergence Center on campus downstairs in the lobby (and/or cafe area) for more th...
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Anvil and Negishi cluster maintenance
The Anvil and Negishi clusters will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 12th 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, March 12th at 5pm. During this time, Anvil and Negishi will have rack...
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The Negishi cluster began experiencing issues around 2PM, and engineers isolated the problem with Negishi. In order to resolve the issue, the scheduler had to be restarted. If you had jobs running on Negishi, please check them to ensure they are stil...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable beginning Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 at 5:00pm. During this time, Negishi will have minor...
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Multiple clusters have been powered off in MATH G109 datacenter due to a water issue in the building. Affected systems are Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth and Negishi. We will provide an update by 5:00 PM today.
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Scheduling Paused on Negish Cluster
At about noon today (Tuesday 12 September), we discovered an issue with the scheduler database related to the power outage last Sunday. Scheduling on Negishi has been paused to allow for work on correcting the database problem. We will have an upda...
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Update to Coffee-Hour Consultation Schedule
A few announcements for the RCAC community regarding our regular Coffee-Hour Consultation services. Support staff will be unavailable both today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) because of other scheduled events. Notably, tomorrow is our Annual Cyberi...
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Update: As of 3:45pm, the Bell cluster has returned to production status. Scheduling is still paused on the Negishi cluster, and we will have an update by 5:00pm EDT The Bell and Negishi clusters began experiencing issues with power around 1:00pm EDT...
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Purdue IT network engineers will be troubleshooting the network connection on Negishi. During this time, the network will be failed over to a backup path, and then moved back to the primary upon conclusion of the work. Impact should be minimal. In t...
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Data Depot degraded performance on RCAC clusters
Users of Data Depot on RCAC clusters are currently experiencing significant performance degradation. The symptoms manifest as delays in listing or accessing files in /depot, significant lags in terminal sessions (especially if you have Data Depot in...
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Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...
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BoilerKey Transition to Purdue Login
Overnight on June 26-27th (Monday-Tuesday), all Purdue systems which use BoilerKey, including RCAC clusters and other systems, will switch to the new Purdue Login. For more information about this change, please see the following documentation: https:...
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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, June 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have the opera...
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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, April 26, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...
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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, April 5, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs wh...