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Carter

  • POD Cluster Maintenance

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    Carter and Scholar are back online for use as of 6:25am, though they will be operating with many nodes still offline. Staff will be working through Wednesday to steadily increase the number of nodes available. This concludes the POD cluster mainten...

  • ECN Services Outage

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...

  • Degraded performance of several systems

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    We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Carter

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    UPDATE: ITaP engineers have implemented a temporary solution so that work may continue on Carter until the scheduled upcoming maintenance window on Tuesday. Any jobs running which were using the scratch space have been stopped in order to allow for t...

  • Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters

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    Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...

  • Unscheduled Scratch Outage on Carter

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    UPDATE As of about 6:30 pm, the new scratch system was brought back online, and scheduling has been restarted on Carter. Original Message The new scratch filesystem serving Carter that was just activated on Tuesday night is currently unavailable. Bot...

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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    Measures taken within the first two hours of this problem seem to have resolved the issue. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly...

  • Emergency Cluster Maintenance

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    The Carter Cluster was returned to production at 10:45pm on November 7. We apologize for this extended outage. Update: November 7, 2016 6:01pm Work on reinstalling the Carter nodes continues. All other systems have returned normal operations. We...

  • Carter Cluster Maintenance

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    The maintenance for Carter cluster was cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The cluster has remained in service. Original Notice The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for emergen...

  • Emergency Security Patching of RCAC Clusters

    Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgraded to a newer version during February 2, 2017 5:00pm - March 2, 2017 5:00pm EST. Unlike other cl...

  • Partial scratch outages on Rice, Snyder, Carter, Scholar and Hammer

    The scratch filesystems serving Carter, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder started behaving abnormally this morning. This may have affected some jobs, and anyone using one of the login nodes for these clusters may have had sessions freeze or seen dela...

  • Emergency Carter Cluster Maintenance

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    Update: Owner queues on Carter have been restarted. While Carter is currently deemed stable, performance is still impacted. Engineers are closely monitoring the situation and will take corrective action if necessary. Update: At this time, only Carter...