Gilbreth
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Purdue professor in Indianapolis uses RCAC clusters to study materials, predict failures
Shengfeng Yang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Indianapolis, uses the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC)’s Negishi community cluster supercomputer to help with his research simulating complex materials. To see how failure...
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When will it Happen? The Gilbreth cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 at 8:00am EDT until Tuesday, August 19th at 5:00pm EDT. What is being upgraded? During this maintenance, Gilbreth will have i...
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Gilbreth Cluster Modernization
As part of an ongoing effort to utilize modern features in the Slurm scheduler and to streamline the process of usage reporting for research groups--something that is often requested by various PIs, the scheduler configurations on the Gilbreth cluste...
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A Purdue professor who uses data analysis to study city infrastructure such as roads, buildings, sewer pipelines and nuclear reactors and predict stresses before they happen, avoiding infrastructure failures, is using RCAC’s Gilbreth community cluste...
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Today, RCAC user management systems sent incorrect email messages to many faculty partners and their resource managers. Please ignore any recent email about expirations or removals. You may verify who has access to your resources through our site www...
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Power outage after thunderstorm
A power outage affected our datacenters at approx 3:15pm. It appears cluster services are restored, however access and authentication may be slowed while we work to get other core infrastructure back online. OoD and desktop of Negishi and gilbreth ma...
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Resources down due to power event
Update 3:40PM, EDT: All systems have been returned to full service and queues are accepting new jobs. Update: 3:00PM, EDT: Systems returning but queues are still paused on all clusters except for Bell and Hammer. Some clusters are waiting for full co...
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Account Provisioning and Access Issues
We’re currently seeing some delays with account provisioning and access for RCAC systems. The issue stems from upstream systems outside of our direct control. Please report any access issues to us as soon as you encounter them so we can assist and tr...
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RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...
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At around 10:45am EDT, Gilbreth scheduling was paused in order to reduce thermal load while emergency plumbing work is performed on the cooling loop that serves the Gilbreth cluster. Login access to Gilbreth remains available for file access and jobs...
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Unscheduled Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth outage
At around 1:30 PM, Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth began to exhibit exessively high temperatures. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 8:00 PM.
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Marina License Server Maintenance
Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...
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The Gilbreth cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 at 8:00am EST through Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 at 5:00pm EST. During this maintenance, Gilbreth will have its software stack modernized. W...
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Gilbreth Maintenance Application Version Changes
As part of Gilbreth's upcoming maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and un...
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Gilbreth Maintenance Test Environment Available to Users
As part of next week's Gilbreth's maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and...
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RCAC License Server Maintaince
Update: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 6:12pm EST This is a reminder that the RCAC license server will be unavailable on today from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST for scheduled maintenance. Licenses hosted by RCAC will be unavailable for checkout for the...
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Unscheduled Storage Permissions Outage
Data Depot and other group-restricted spaces began experiencing issues with file permissions around 5pm. Users will notice a "permission denied" error when attempting to access spaces they normally would be able to read based on their unix...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...