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  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage on multiple clusters

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with mounting old Data Depot filesystem around 12:30am EDT. Multiple nodes are flagged offline by an automatic check, and bioinformatics application suite...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot and community clusters outage

    At about 9:30am EDT, Data Depot servers started experiencing a ramping high load. Coupled with an ongoing scaling issues with the metadata subsystem, this caused Data Depot to become increasingly unresponsive for both community clusters and network d...

  • Unscheduled Brown, Halstead, Hammer Gilbreth, and Workbench outage

    The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with home mounts around Thursday, September 16th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job schedul...

  • Unscheduled Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting around 7:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been...

  • Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot servers began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and...

  • Unscheduled Brown and Hammer outage

    The Brown and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with cooling due to problems at the Physical Facilities' chiller plant around 4:40pm EDT. To avoid overheating, job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provid...

  • Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot began experiencing issues with intermittent high load on the Data Depot servers around 4:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to...

  • Research Computing Holiday Break

    Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

    As of 8:00pm EST on Friday, February 11th, 2022 the Data Depot filesystem outage has been resolved and scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, Workbench, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing i...

  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Weber, and Workbench clusters) will be unavailable March 15, 2022 4:00pm - March 16, 2022 12:00pm EDT during Whole-Floor Data Depo...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot Slowdown on Community Clusters

    As of 9:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience slowness while trying to access Data Depot (including loading modules, starting applications or reading data) . The symptoms appear on both login and compute nodes. System engineers are act...

  • Unscheduled campus power outage

    Several Research Computing resources became affected by a campus power outage around 7:00pm EDT. Multiple login and compute nodes may have powered down, leading to jobs fail and/or requeue with a NODE_FAIL or similar status. Engineers are currently d...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown and Hammer

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    Beginning around 2:00pm EDT, the ailing cooling systems for Brown and Hammer began experiencing issues. To reduce the thermal load on the systems, scheduling of new jobs has been paused on Brown and Hammer and will not be resumed until after tomorrow...

  • Brown, Hammer and Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Brown, Hammer, and Weber clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from 6:00am - 11:59pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT. During this time, Physical F...

  • Unscheduled Brown outage

    The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 11:20am 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...

  • Brown New Home Directories

    In the recently announced September 1st Brown Maintenance, home directories on Brown will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared with several other clusters. Everyone will be given a new, empty, home directory on Brown with a 25 GB limit...

  • Brown New Home Directories

    Brown will be unavailable Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this maintenance, home directories on Brown will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared amongst several other clusters as a...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer

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    As of 11:30am EDT, the Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with their filesystems which may cause login failures. Engineers are currently investigating the root cause, and in the interim, job scheduling has been p...

  • Scheduling paused on multiple clusters

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 9:50am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while...

  • Research Computing Holiday Break

    Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...