Brown
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Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters
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...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
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...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will have minor operating sy...
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Unscheduled data center outage
Several clusters have experienced network connectivity and/or power issues around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are working on assessing and analyzing the situation. Job scheduling on affected clusters has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We...
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Scheduling of Jobs Paused on Brown
Starting at 2:45pm EDT, new jobs are not being scheduled on the Brown cluster in order to lighten the load. The current hot weather outside is overtaxing Brown cooling systems. Existing jobs will continue to run as planned. As soon as the cooling sys...
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Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters
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...
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Unscheduled power outage affecting Brown and Hammer
The Brown and Hammer clusters experienced a partial power outage overnight which caused them to operate at a reduced capacity. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this...
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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...
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Brown will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to this...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...
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Unscheduled Brown scratch outage
The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 4:30pm 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 pro...
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Unscheduled Home Directory Outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with intermittently slow home directories access around 2:30pm EDT. The issue has been traced to a high load on one of the filesystem's back-end se...
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Unscheduled Brown scratch outage
The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem 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.
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Unscheduled Brown scratch outage
The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 12:00pm 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 pr...
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Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing in March, 2020. We are currently offering six 30-minute slots e...
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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, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have been completed. If you have a login session (Thinlinc, Gateway, SSH, etc.) that was started before the...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I use the new modules? The new software stack is now the default (i.e. this is what you see when you...