Brown
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 at 12:00pm EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. During this time, various...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches a...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will...
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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...
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Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many nodes in these clusters temporarily lost access to Depot. Jobs accessing files on Depot may have pa...
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New Windows Network Drive (SMB) Access
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped network drives to connect to: \\scratch.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu\my_cluster_name_here Or f...
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Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu The old Thinlinc service on thinlinc.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired at...
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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...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have minor operating system security pat...
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Unscheduled network outage on Brown, Rice, Snyder and Hammer
The Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with scratch filesystems and network connectivity around 2:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused...
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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...
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Brown & BrownGPU Cluster Maintenance
The Brown and BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown and B...
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Emergency Brown & BrownGPU Clusters Maintenance
The Brown and BrownGPU clusters will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown and BrownGPU will ha...
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Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access
Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...
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Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
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...
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Halstead and Brown unscheduled outage
Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Brown, and BrownGPU went offline during a campus power event around 8:40 am this morning. Engineers are working to bring the compute nodes and the scratch system back online. Other systems are back online at this time. Job sche...
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Unscheduled Brown and BrownGPU outage
The Brown and BrownGPU cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 8:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed...