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 #1138: Depot Access Issues from ECN Systems
Update Working closely with ECN, RCAC engineers have deployed a new CIFS server to mitigate any incompatibilities. ECN users affected by this issue sh...
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Article #1180: Data Depot Maintenance
As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Dep...
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Article #1191: Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot...
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Article #1218: Unscheduled Depot Outage
The Data Depot central servers lost their connection to Depot and all rebooted around 11:45am EDT. Servers are already returning, but engineers are w...
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Article #1270: Campus power outage
A power event around 8:40 am this morning affected all Research Computing resources, along with networking, and other resources around campus. Network...
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Article #1296: Box.com Research Lab Folders available for use
Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Box.com Research Lab folders to facilitate easy data sharing and collaboration. Box Rese...
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Article #1346: Unscheduled Depot Outage
Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling...
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Article #1474: Unscheduled Outage to Multiple Systems
Hammer, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, WSC Hadoop, and Data Depot began experiencing issues with networking around 10:00am EST. Engineers are currently diag...
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Article #1486: Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the...
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Article #1532: Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide i...
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Article #1625: Unscheduled Data Depot windows network drive outage
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems, but remained available through other me...
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Article #1678: Unscheduled Data Depot outage
The Data Depot storage system began experiencing issues with No space left on device error messages around 10:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagno...
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Article #1858: Research Data Depot Consistency Checking Underway, Snapshot Schedule Affected
The Research Data Depot is currently undergoing a full filesystem consistency scan. While the scan is running, all backend servers within the GPFS fil...
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Article #1972: Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via...
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Article #2511: Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal busin...
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Article #2512: Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require log...
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Article #2740: Unscheduled Data Depot outage
The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issu...
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Article #2970: Data Depot Migration FAQ
The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration. My Data Depot space is...
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Article #2968: Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT, the Data Depot storage service will be unavailable while it will be transitioned to new hardware. All Depot ac...