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Workbench

  • Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench system will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. Workbench will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have...

  • Holiday Break

    Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, March 8th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for regular maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned...

  • 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...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, April 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for regular maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned to...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, July 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned t...

  • 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 Workbench outage

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    The Data Workbench and WSC Hadoop cluster began experiencing issues with connectivity around 2:00pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 3 pm.

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, September 6th, 2018 at 1:00pm EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be retur...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, October 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returne...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, November 1st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be return...

  • Emergency Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, January 25th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Workbench will have critical security...

  • Unscheduled Workbench Outage

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    The Workbench cluster began experiencing issues with the server which manages its Thinlinc virtual desktop around 10:30pm EST. Currently, no new Thinlinc sessions will be able to be started. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are worki...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

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    Starting at Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be retu...

  • 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...

  • Monthly Workbench maintenance

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    Once again, the first Thursday of the month, the Workbench cluster will be unavailable Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the cluster will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the serv...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have minor op...