Article #1203: Conte Retirement
The Conte cluster will be retired at the planned end of life for this system on Wednesday, August 1, 2018. Please start archiving any data you may hav...
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Article #1199: Unscheduled Conte scratch outage
The Conte cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 10:45am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are worki...
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Article #1160: All Clusters Outage
All Research Computing systems suffered an unplanned outage Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at 8:15pm EDT due to a widespread power failure in the area. Th...
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Article #1146: New Windows Network Drive (SMB) Access
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped ne...
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Article #1147: New Thinlinc Servers
Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_clust...
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Article #1107: Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many...
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Article #1105: Holiday Break
Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be av...
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Article #1085: Conte Cluster Maintenance
The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to f...
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Article #1046: Conte Cluster Emergency Maintenance
The Conte Cluster has been returned to production. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to rcac-help@purdue.edu. This is a gen...
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Article #1039: Unscheduled Depot Outage
A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are wo...
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Article #992: Scratch Purge Policy Change
After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28,...
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Article #1032: Unscheduled outages on portions of clusters
Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are back in full production. Job scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. Please let us know if you see a...
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Article #995: Removal of netcdf and hdf5 system-level library installations
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries i...
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Article #987: Data Depot Outage
Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you...
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Article #980: Unscheduled outage on Conte
As of 2:35 pm, Conte cluster is returned to service. Scheduling is resumed in all queues. Update The source of the problem has been identified and the...
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Article #967: Clusters to complete transition to hierarchy modules
The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longe...
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Article #940: Conte and Hathi Cluster Maintenance
The Conte and Hathi clusters have been updated and returned to full production. This is a gentle reminder that the Conte and Hathi clusters will be u...
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Article #924: Clusters to switch to hierarchical modules
Carter, Conte, Hammer, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder have been converted to hierarchical modules. All front-ends have been converted, and nodes wil...
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Article #937: Unscheduled scratch outage on Conte
The scratch filesystem serving Conte is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until th...
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Article #917: Conte Cluster Maintenance
Conte is back in production, and jobs have started running. Thank you for your patience. ===== Because of additional work required to fix a configura...