Scholar
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Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many nodes in these clusters temporarily lost access to Depot. Jobs accessing files on Depot may have pa...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice and Scholar clusters
The scratch filesystem serving Rice and Scholar is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Rice and Scholar has been paused while st...
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New Windows Network Drive (SMB) Access
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped network drives to connect to: \\scratch.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu\my_cluster_name_here Or f...
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Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu The old Thinlinc service on thinlinc.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired at...
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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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The Scholar cluster for educational use has proven to be extremely useful as an in-class tool. As a result of this success, it is being rebuilt and expanded over the summer. The new Scholar will offer more and better resources for educational use a...
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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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Critical maintenance of RStudio Server on Scholar
RStudio Server on the Scholar Cluster will be unavailable tonight, Monday 27 Aug, 2018, from 11:00 pm to approximately midnight. During this time, a fix will be implemented for a critical problem that causes the system to not accept web-based logins....
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Emergency Scholar Cluster Maintenance
The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Saturday, January 26th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Scholar will have critical security p...
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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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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Scholar will have operating sy...
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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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Emergency Scholar scratch file system maintenance
Engineers are taking offline Scholar's scratch file system for emergency hardware maintenance Monday, August 12, 2019 from 5:00pm - 6:15pm EDT. Any jobs or applications that attempt to use the scratch file system during this time will either hang or...
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The Scholar cluster front-end login hosts will all be rebooted today between 6:00pm – 7:00pm EDT. We hope this, in conjunction with other minor software changes being made concurrently, will help address problems being seen by students using RStudio...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm 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 an update by 9pm or earlier as...
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New Software Stack Available on Scholar
To expand the list of supported software on Scholar and to provide software updates at a faster pace, Research Computing is adopting a new software automation framework (Spack) that will replace our existing software stack. Applications built with Sp...
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As of 2:30 pm, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Scholar cluster back to normal service. Any PBS jobs that were running have been deleted, as Scholar’s primary batch scheduler has been switched from PBS/Torque to Slurm. Pleas...
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Unscheduled Outage to Multiple Systems
Hammer, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, WSC Hadoop, and Data Depot began experiencing issues with networking around 10:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 1:00pm if the issue...