Carter
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Carter has been returned to normal operation. Update: January 20, 2016 3:26pm: We are doing return to service testing now and expect Carter to return to production by 7:00pm. Update: January 20, 2016 12:00pm: Work is being wrapped up on Carter and...
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Carter has been return to normal operations. All queues have been enabled. Update: December 2, 2015 12:15pm Carter is mostly ready to return to service, but the site-wide home filesystem has suffered a failure which is preventing this from being co...
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October 30, 2015 11:00am ITaP Engineers have made additional timeout changes to the scratch filesystem which has increased stability. Additional work is being scheduled for Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from 7:00am to 7:00pm. October 8, 2015 5:00pm An e...
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Emergency scratch maintenance on Carter and Scholar
The scratch filesystem serving Carter/Scholar underwent emergency maintenance through Friday night and well into Saturday. We expect this work to resolve the periodic hangs this filesystem has been experiencing for the last two days. Job scheduling...
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Update: September 23, 2015 8am Shortly after 2am, Engineers were able to complete the file transfer and return Carter back to production. Update: September 22, 2015 11pm The file transfer continues and will last well into the night. The next update...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...
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Data Depot connectivity issues
ITaP engineers have identified issues causing intermittent failures on Carter. Engineers are currently tuning parameters on Depot system that have been identified as potential fixes to the issues. Access to Depot on Carter has been stable since tunin...
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Research Data Depot Security Updates
As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the Research Data Depot will undergo maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST...
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Important operating system updates - Community Clusters
On the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015, Carter, Conte, Hansen, Peregrine1, Radon, and Rossmann login servers will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update. Additionally, during this time scratch storage servers w...
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ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) in coordination with Physical Facilities will be conducting a planned power outage in the MSEE building from 8am until noon on Saturday, January 10th, 2015. No one will be allowed to enter the building during this...
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Diminished network connectivity to research computing resources
Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web site, Globus, Thinlinc, or other research computing resources may be impacted. To work around this iss...
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Network Maintenance for Carter, Conte, and Hansen clusters
The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This upgrade will significantly upgrade Conte and Carter's network connectivity, as part of ITaP's 2014 re...
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Lustre Maintenance - 9/30/2014
The Lustre Filesystem for Hansen and Carter will be briefly unavailable, beginning at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 30. At this time, ITaP engineers will perform repairs on one of the Lustre storage nodes. Access to scratch may be intermittent while...
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The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at 8:00am on Monday, May 19, 2014, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm, Wednesday, May 21. During this time, Carter will receive operating system patches, an...
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Scheduling Paused on Hansen and Carter
The scratch filesystem on Hansen and Carter is currently unavailable due to a hardware issue. Attempts to access scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Hansen and Carter has been paused while storage engineers addre...
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In order to repair a hardware issue with the underlying disk storage comprising LustreC, ITaP storage engineers will execute a brief maintenance on the filesystem on Monday morning, April 7, 2014. This issue is currently impacting the filesystem's re...
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UPDATE - As of 7:45pm Sunday, March 16th, 2014, the fileserver maintenance has completed successfully, and cluster systems are back online. All Research Computing systems will be unavailable from 8:00am Saturday, 3/15/2014 through Sunday, 3/16/2014...
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All ITaP Research Computing systems are currently experiencing an issue with accessing network filesystems. A case has been opened with our vendor as ITaP engineers troubleshoot the issue. Cluster users may experience issues accessing files in /home,...
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Nearly all major clusters operated by ITaP Research Computing are stopped due to issues with their storage systems relating to the power loss on the West Lafayette campus in the wake of the severe weather Sunday night. This includes: Conte, Carter,...
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Update: 11:00pm, Nov. 12, 2013 ITaP storage engineers have returned the offline hardware to production and LustreC is back in production. Queues on Hansen and Carter have been restarted as of 11:45pm. Update: 5:00pm Following consultation with vendor...