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  • Multiple clusters outage

    Multiple clusters have been powered off in MATH G109 datacenter due to a water issue in the building. Affected systems are Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth and Negishi. We will provide an update by 5:00 PM today.

  • Brown Cluster Retirement

    The Brown cluster has reached the end of its life cycle and will be decommissioned on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Your access to Brown nodes will be terminated on November 8, however you can still access your files stored on Brown storage until Dece...

  • Data Depot degraded performance on RCAC clusters

    Users of Data Depot on RCAC clusters are currently experiencing significant performance degradation. The symptoms manifest as delays in listing or accessing files in /depot, significant lags in terminal sessions (especially if you have Data Depot in...

  • RCAC Support Updates

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    Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...

  • BoilerKey Transition to Purdue Login

    Overnight on June 26-27th (Monday-Tuesday), all Purdue systems which use BoilerKey, including RCAC clusters and other systems, will switch to the new Purdue Login. For more information about this change, please see the following documentation: https:...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

    The Brown cluster will be unavailable for use on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from 7:30am – 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, Brown will have the operating system patched and an update done to the Slurm job scheduler. Any Slurm job w...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown

    Around 2:10p EST, the Brown cluster began experiencing issues with home directory mounts. Job scheduling on the Brown cluster has been paused while engineers investigate the issue. We will provide an update by 5pm.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...