Article #938: Carter Cluster Decommission Early Notice
Thank you for partnering with ITaP in the community cluster program. Carter has been running for more than 4.5 years now and will be decommissioned on...
Thank you for partnering with ITaP in the community cluster program. Carter has been running for more than 4.5 years now and will be decommissioned on...
As a reminder, Carter will be shut down and decommissioned on Sunday April 30, 2017. ALL DATA in /scratch/carter WILL NOT BE RETRIEVABLE after April 3...
Update: Owner queues on Carter have been restarted. While Carter is currently deemed stable, performance is still impacted. Engineers are closely moni...
The scratch filesystems serving Carter, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder started behaving abnormally this morning. This may have affected some jobs,...
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgra...
Carter, Conte, Hammer, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder have been converted to hierarchical modules. All front-ends have been converted, and nodes wil...
The maintenance for Carter cluster was cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The cluster has remained in service. Original Notice The Ca...
The old Carter scratch filesystem (Warp) will be retired and shut down in three weeks' time. To access this filesystem and ensure you have any files...
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...
Due to a recently found vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (known as the Dirty-COW vulnerability), an emergency patch has been applied on the cluster n...
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 Rese...
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 scra...
On September 27th, 2016, the Carter cluster scratch filesystem, which had been suffering from numerous issues, was replaced by an entirely new system....
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 1...
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack o...
We are seeing some issues with the systems in the warp-scratch set of hosts. You may encounter an error with your home directory and/or a message abo...
UPDATE: ITaP engineers have implemented a temporary solution so that work may continue on Carter until the scheduled upcoming maintenance window on Tu...
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 probl...
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for...
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 W...