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Outages and Maintenance

  • Globus issue affecting Purdue “Data Depot” endpoint

    We are currently investigating problems with the Purdue Research Computing – Data Depot Globus endpoint that cause directory listings and transfers to time out with errors such as ExternalError.DirListingFailed.Timeout. Users may be unable to browse...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Open OnDemand Maintenance (April 28)

    The Open Ondemand service for Gilbreth will be unavailable from Tuesday, April 28 at 9:00am EDT, 2026 to Tuesday, April 28 at 5:00pm EDT, 2026. During the maintenance, RCAC team will perform a reconfiguration to the Open Ondemand dashboard for Gilbre...

  • All Clusters & Services Restored

    At approximately 9:40pm EDT Monday, April 27th, 2026, a campus-wide power outage due to weather impacted all research computing clusters and storage systems. Power has been restored, and engineers are currently bringing systems back online in an orde...

  • RCAC Maintenance Complete – All Systems Available

    The ongoing RCAC maintenance originally scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM today (Thursday, April 23) has been extended. The new expected completion time is 9:00 PM tonight, Thursday, April 23. All RCAC systems and Research Network services will remain...

  • Data Depot is up, but some operations may be slower than normal while recovery work continues

    Data Depot is currently experiencing degraded performance. Service is available, but background recovery processes are still running and may slow access to Depot. Our team is continuing to monitor the system and work toward full restoration.

  • Data Depot is currently unavailable

    We are currently experiencing an unplanned outage affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively working to restore service, but there is no ETA to share yet. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available.

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, April 1, 2026 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 1, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfer...

  • Negishi Cluster Filesystem Interruption (Resolved)

    Between approximately 9:30 PM and 10:45 PM EDT on March 30, 2026, the Negishi home file system experienced issues that prevented users from successfully connecting to login nodes. Service was fully restored at 10:45 PM EDT, and login functionality ha...

  • Temporary Impact to Data Depot Operations

    We’re currently investigating an issue affecting IO operations to the Data Depot. Our monitoring has detected that the primary storage disks used for data writes are nearing capacity, which is causing IO failures for jobs writing to the Depot. To pre...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    As of 11:00am EDT, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Weber cluster back to normal service. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 18, 2026 from 8:00am - 5:00pm...

  • Power Outage Impacting Multiple Clusters — Recovery Underway

    At approximately 6:00 AM EDT, a power outage impacted systems in the Math Data Center. Most services have now been restored. Due to the outage, some jobs on Gilbreth did not requeue automatically. Users should check the status of any jobs that were r...

  • Negishi experiencing 2nd service disruption

    We are again investigating an issue affecting Negishi. The system is currently unresponsive or unavailable for some users, including SSH access. We will provide an update when service is restored or as soon as we have additional information.

  • Negishi experiencing service disruption

    We are investigating an issue affecting Negishi. The system is currently unresponsive or unavailable for some users, including SSH access. We will provide an update when service is restored or as soon as we have additional information.

  • Negishi Cluster Service Interruption

    We are currently experiencing an unexpected outage affecting the Negishi cluster. We are actively working to restore service and will provide an update once the system is stable. Impact: Users are currently unable to access their home directories,...

  • Weber Authentication Changes

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    As part of the efforts to certify Purdue as a CMMC Level 2 compliant institution, authentication to Weber, ThinLlinc access, and data egress will change during a maintenance scheduled for 8 AM -12 PM on March 5th, 2026. ** How does this change impact...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    Due to prolonged software updates the Purdue Github services will be extending service unavailability today Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 3:00pm - 7:00pm EST (previously 3:00pm - 5:00pm) for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every mon...

  • Scheduling paused on Gautschi CPU cluster due to cooling leak

    We have identified a cooling leak in Gautschi cluster that impacts CPU nodes and are actively working to resolve the issue. **How does this impact you? ** We have paused job scheduling on the CPU nodes. You can continue to submit jobs to Gautschi nod...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you...

  • MATH Datacenter Cooling issue - Job scheduling paused on Anvil/Gautschi

    The MATH datacenter started experiencing issues with cooling systems around 12pm. Job scheduling on the Anvil and Gautschi clusters was paused shortly after and scheduling resumed at 1:30pm.