Scholar
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Intermittent Access Failures on Data Depot
As of Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience intermittent "permission denied" errors while trying to access their files on Data Depot. Errors may come and go, and may appear on both login and c...
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Scheduling Paused on Multiple Clusters
At about 4:00 pm today (Wednesday, 21 July, 2021) System Engineers found an issue with the schedulers on the Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters. Job scheduling has been paused while this is being investigated. Symptoms of this pro...
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RCAC Whole-Floor Downtime and Power Work
The majority of the Research Computing computational resources will be unavailable July 30, 2021 7:00am - August 1, 2021 12:00pm EDT for a whole-floor downtime due to electrical power work in MATH and POD data centers. Along with a required preven...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on multiple clusters
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with mounting old Data Depot filesystem around 12:30am EDT. Multiple nodes are flagged offline by an automatic check, and bioinformatics application suite...
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Unscheduled Data Depot and community clusters outage
At about 9:30am EDT, Data Depot servers started experiencing a ramping high load. Coupled with an ongoing scaling issues with the metadata subsystem, this caused Data Depot to become increasingly unresponsive for both community clusters and network d...
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Unscheduled Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot outage
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting around 7:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been...
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Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot servers began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and...
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Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot began experiencing issues with intermittent high load on the Data Depot servers around 4:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...
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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable January 4, 2022 8:00am - January 5, 2022 6:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 at 6:00pm EST. During this time, Scholar will have the...
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As of 8:00pm EST on Friday, February 11th, 2022 the Data Depot filesystem outage has been resolved and scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, Workbench, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing i...
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Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Weber, and Workbench clusters) will be unavailable March 15, 2022 4:00pm - March 16, 2022 12:00pm EDT during Whole-Floor Data Depo...
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Unscheduled Data Depot Slowdown on Community Clusters
As of 9:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience slowness while trying to access Data Depot (including loading modules, starting applications or reading data) . The symptoms appear on both login and compute nodes. System engineers are act...
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Unscheduled Scholar Gateway outage
The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with its OnDemand Gateway around Sunday, October 16th, 2022 at 9:00pm EDT. The issue manifests as connection to gateway.scholar.purdue.edu timing out. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue with the...
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Scheduling paused on multiple clusters
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 9:50am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while...
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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable December 21, 2022 8:00am - December 22, 2022 5:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance between semesters. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 at 5:00pm EST. During this time...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Unscheduled Scholar partial outage
The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with its Thinlinc remote desktop (desktop.scholar.rcac.purdue.edu) and its RStudio Server (rstudio.scholar.rcac.purdue.edu) around 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working...
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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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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...