Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Gilbreth, Scholar, Brown, Workbench, Halstead, Hammer, WCERES, and WSC Hadoop cluste...
Brown
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Unscheduled outage on multiple clusters
Due to problems with cooling system in the MATH datacenter, the CMS, Bell, Gilbreth, Brown, Halstead, WCERES, and WSC Hadoop clusters began experienci...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage
The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue an...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage
The Bell, Gilbreth, Scholar, Brown, Halstead, Snyder, and Rice clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm. Enginee...
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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 log...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business...
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Unscheduled Brown outage
The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its job scheduler around 4:00pm. The problem manifests itself as Slurm-related commands (slist, squeu...
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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...
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Brown Cluster Maintenance
The Brown cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 19, 2020 from 8:00am - 6:00pm for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full produ...
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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 authenticat...
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Unscheduled Cluster Outage
As of 12:30pm all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an ou...
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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...
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Community Cluster Life Cycles Extended to 6 Years
For the last several years, we've heard your input around longer lifespans for community clusters, and now, thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it makes...
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Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Halstead, Snyder, Rice, Workbench, and Gilbreth clusters have bee...
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New Software Stack FAQ
The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I...