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Outages and Maintenance

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled Bell Outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with the /scratch filesystem. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix for some files being unavailable. We will provide an update by 6pm.

  • Anvil Cluster Maintenance

    The Anvil system will be unavailable from Monday, October 21st at 7:00am to Tuesday, October 22nd at 6:00pm EDT, 2024 for scheduled maintenance. During the maintenance, we will perform cooling work for the system to integrate a new NSF funded AI res...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Weber will have its operating system and application stack upgra...

  • Fortress Tape Availability Delayed

    The Fortress Archive will be receiving a hardware upgrade on its Tape Library on Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 9AM - 5PM. During this time, ingestion of new data will continue, but any tape transfers will the deferred until the library is back onli...

  • Unscheduled Fortress outage

    Fortress began experiencing issues with communications around 3:00AM. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 12:00PM.

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024 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 m...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 8:00am - 3:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfe...

  • Unscheduled Globus service outage

    The Globus connection began experiencing issues on Data Depot endpoint around 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Please use other data transfer methods introduced in the user guide. We will pr...

  • Weber VPN maintenance

    At 8:00am on Thursday September 19th, 2024, the Weber VPN (REED VPN) will be undergoing a software version change to address a bug that has been causing connectivity issues for some users. No action by users needs to be taken. While no downtime is an...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with the /scratch filesystem at around 5pm today. 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 p...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, September 4, 2024 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...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, September 4, 2024 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 tran...

  • Unscheduled Scholar outage

    The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with adding new students from the courses onto the cluster. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. The cluster is functioning normally so all the active Scholar us...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Friday, August 16, 2024 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for maintenance ahead of the start of classes. The cluster will return to full production the same day by 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Scholar will switch over...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, August 7th, 2024 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...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, August 7, 2024 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 transfe...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, July 3, 2024 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, July 3, 2024 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 transfers...