Purdue University

Link to update at August 16, 2023 4:11pm EDT UPDATE: August 16, 2023 4:11pm EDT

As of 4:11pm EDT, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Scholar cluster back to normal service. All queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu

Link to original posting ORIGINAL: August 16, 2023 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT

The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 16, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT.

During this time, the following changes will be applied to Scholar

1. Install newer GCC 9 and 12, Intel 19 compilers and OpenMPI 4 libraries
2. Retire the Rstudio server. Users can continue to use Rstudio on gateway.scholar.
3. Operating system update and patches
4. Cuda driver and library update

Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 at 8:00am EDT will not start and will remain in the queue until after the maintenance is completed.