Scholar
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Preventative Scholar Maintenance
In order to alleviate gradual degradation of performance on Scholar, all the front-end login nodes will be restarted shortly after midnight Sunday (Saturday night). This may be necessary on a weekly basis, although engineers continue to monitor these...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) has reported an outage on the software license servers for ITaP Research Computing systems that are hosted by ECN. ITaP Research Computing cluster job scheduling is not affected by the outage, but licenses for soft...
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Unscheduled Home Directory Outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with intermittently slow home directories access around 2:30pm EDT. The issue has been traced to a high load on one of the filesystem's back-end se...
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for regular inter-semester maintenance and upgrades starting at Monday, June 15th, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. All jobs which cannot complete before then will be held queued during this time, and no one will be able to...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...
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As of 12:30pm EDT all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an outage across the community clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WC...
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Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access to each cluster and will no longer support p...
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for a short maintenance on Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 10:00am EDT. During this maintenance, we will apply patches to the RStudio Server on Scholar. All jobs which cannot complete before the start of the main...
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Home and Applications Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Most of the research computing clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop) as well as some other minor systems will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 at 9:00am EST, for...
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for regular inter-semester maintenance and upgrades starting at Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 at 8:00am EST. All jobs which cannot complete before then will be held queued during this time, and no one will be a...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...
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The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. To avoid job losses for...
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A large number of Scholar accounts have been accidentally removed during overnight processing. This manifests as "LDAP authorization check failed", or "Incorrect or Invalid username/password" and similar errors when trying to logi...
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The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...
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Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...
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[Cancelled] Scholar Cluster Maintenance
The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Friday, May 14, 2021 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Scholar will have the operating system patched and several software u...