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  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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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...

  • Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters

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    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...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    The Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Snyder will have minor operat...

  • Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters

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    At approximately, 8:30am EDT, the Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters became unavailable due to a campus power outage. While power has been restored, engineers are currently working returning the clusters to service. Job scheduling has been paus...

  • Clusters feature interactive HPC web portal

    An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand, developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resourc...

  • Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters

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    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...

  • Campus power outage

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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...

  • Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey

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    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...

  • Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access

    Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...

  • Emergency Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    The Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, January 28th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Snyder will have critical security patch...

  • Scratch unavailable on Snyder cluster

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    As of approximately 2:30pm EDT, the Snyder cluster is currently experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Attempts to access scratch will likely fail. Job scheduli...

  • All Systems Maintenance

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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...

  • Unscheduled network outage on Brown, Rice, Snyder and Hammer

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    The Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with scratch filesystems and network connectivity around 2:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Snyder cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 21st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Snyder will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...

  • Common CentOS7 Upgrade Questions

    The Halstead, Rice, and Snyder clusters will be upgraded to newer CentOS7 operating system in May 2018 (detailed announcements in: Rice Upgrade to CentOS7, Halstead Upgrade to CentOS7, Snyder Upgrade to CentOS7). Along with operating system upgrade,...

  • Snyder Upgrade to CentOS7

    In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Snyder is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS is built from t...

  • All Clusters Outage

    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...

  • 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...

  • New Thinlinc Servers

    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...

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters

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    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...