HalsteadGPU
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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 any lingering issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. UPDATE July 20, 2017 2:54pm Power has been restored to...
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A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all systems while this issue is being add...
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HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
HalsteadGPU is back in full production and job scheduling has been resumed. Please let us know if you see any issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. Please note, the next planned maintenance will be Wednesday, September 13. Original Message Wednesday, Augu...
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Access to Data Depot from the Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters has hung starting around Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 1:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently working to restore service to these systems. Job scheduling h...
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Monthly HalsteadGPU Maintenance
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT, HalsteadGPU will be down for its regularly-scheduled second Wednesday of the month maintenance. During this time, the server will receive operating system patches and minor upgrades. The Halstea...
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Monthly HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for its regular monthly maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the system will receive minor up...
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Monthly HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for its regular monthly maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the system will receive minor u...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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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 nodes in these clusters temporarily lost access to Depot. Jobs accessing files on Depot may have pa...
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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 network drives to connect to: \\scratch.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu\my_cluster_name_here Or f...
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Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu The old Thinlinc service on thinlinc.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired at...
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Brown GPU nodes available for use
The Brown cluster's GPU nodes have entered friendly-user mode, and are available for purchase. To make the cost of the GPUs more affordable, ITaP is pleased to continue with a cloud-like, annual subscription-based model that was first used on Halstea...
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Halstead and HalsteadGPU will be having a new scratch filesystem installed on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018. All access to these systems will be stopped at 5:00am EDT in order to allow for engineers to install the new hardware. Any jobs whose requested...
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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. Thanks to diligent efforts all night and today by many teams across ITaP, all computational clusters h...
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The Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be moving to a new storage system over Thursday, April 12, 2018. There will not be any automatic transfer of files from your old scratch space to your new scratch space. You will find there are two ne...
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Job Scheduling Issue on Clusters
As of Monday, April 16th, 2018 at 10:00am EDT, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are not properly scheduling new jobs due to a problem with the Moab scheduler. Existing jobs are unaffected. We are working with the vendor to address this and expect...
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HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Because of concurrent work on the Halstead cluster, this is expected to be down two days, and HalsteadGPU will not return to ser...
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Old Halstead Scratch Retirement
The old Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be retired July 9, 2018 8:00am - July 16, 2018 5:00pm EDT. This storage has not been the default scratch space on Halstead and HalsteadGPU since May 15, and its retirement will complete the pro...
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On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of central cooling systems across data centers and upgrades to the research networking core. This will affect...
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Emergency HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, January 31st, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, HalsteadGPU will have critical se...