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  • 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...

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 Brown and Hammer outage

    The Brown and Hammer cluster began experiencing issues with cooling in the POD data center around 5:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being add...

  • Unscheduled Brown, Hammer and Weber outage

    The Brown, Hammer, and Weber clusters began experiencing issues with cooling in the POD data center around 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is...

  • RCAC Whole-Floor Downtime and Power Work

    The majority of the Research Computing computational resources will be unavailable July 30, 2021 7:00am - August 1, 2021 12:00pm EDT for a whole-floor downtime due to electrical power work in MATH and POD data centers. Along with a required preven...

  • Unscheduled Brown outage

    The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with cooling around 9:00pm 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 provide an update...

  • Scheduling Paused on Multiple Clusters

    At about 4:00 pm today (Wednesday, 21 July, 2021) System Engineers found an issue with the schedulers on the Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters. Job scheduling has been paused while this is being investigated. Symptoms of this pro...

  • Intermittent Access Failures on Data Depot

    As of Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience intermittent "permission denied" errors while trying to access their files on Data Depot. Errors may come and go, and may appear on both login and c...

  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

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    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...

  • Unscheduled outage on multiple clusters

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    Due to problems with cooling system in the MATH datacenter, the CMS, Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, WCERES, and WSC Hadoop clusters began experiencing issues around 4:00pm EDT. Multiple front-end, compute and storage services are affected. Engineer...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

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    The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

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    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. To avoid job losses for...

  • 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 logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...

  • Research Computing Holiday Break

    Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...

  • Unscheduled Brown outage

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    The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its job scheduler around 4:00pm EST. The problem manifests itself as Slurm-related commands (slist, squeue, sinteractive, sbatch, etc) being slow, unresponsive or timing out. Queue selection dialogs in...