Hammer
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Unscheduled Brown, Halstead, Hammer Gilbreth, and Workbench outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with home mounts around Thursday, September 16th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job schedul...
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Unscheduled Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot outage
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting around 7:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been...
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Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot servers began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and...
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Unscheduled Brown and Hammer outage
The Brown and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with cooling due to problems at the Physical Facilities' chiller plant around 4:40pm EDT. To avoid overheating, job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provid...
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Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage
The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot began experiencing issues with intermittent high load on the Data Depot servers around 4:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...
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Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Weber, and Workbench clusters) will be unavailable March 15, 2022 4:00pm - March 16, 2022 12:00pm EDT during Whole-Floor Data Depo...
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Unscheduled Data Depot Slowdown on Community Clusters
As of 9:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience slowness while trying to access Data Depot (including loading modules, starting applications or reading data) . The symptoms appear on both login and compute nodes. System engineers are act...
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Scheduling Paused on Brown and Hammer
Beginning around 2:00pm EDT, the ailing cooling systems for Brown and Hammer began experiencing issues. To reduce the thermal load on the systems, scheduling of new jobs has been paused on Brown and Hammer and will not be resumed until after tomorrow...
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Brown, Hammer and Weber Cluster Maintenance
The Brown, Hammer, and Weber clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from 6:00am - 11:59pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT. During this time, Physical F...
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Scheduling Paused on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer
As of 11:30am EDT, the Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with their filesystems which may cause login failures. Engineers are currently investigating the root cause, and in the interim, job scheduling has been p...
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Complete! - New Hammer/CMS Home Directories
update 12152022: The home directory transition for the Hammer cluster is complete. If you did not previously transfer your home directory data, the old home server mounts are still mounted on the Hammer login nodes at /home-old. Additionally the co...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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BoilerKey Transition to Purdue Login
Overnight on June 26-27th (Monday-Tuesday), all Purdue systems which use BoilerKey, including RCAC clusters and other systems, will switch to the new Purdue Login. For more information about this change, please see the following documentation: https:...
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Unscheduled Hammer Slurm outage
The Hammer cluster began experiencing issues with the Slurm scheduler around 5:00am, Thursday, July 6th. The Slurm scheduler is non-responsive, as a result, jobs will fail to schedule. Desktop and SSH access to Hammer login nodes is still available,...
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Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...
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Hammer Cluster Maintenance 7/19
The Hammer cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, July 19th at 8:00am for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm on Wednesday, July 19th. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past 8:00am 7...
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Unscheduled Hammer OnDemand Outage
Open OnDemand services for the Hammer cluster are currently offline. Engineers are investigating a boot disk failure on the server that hosts the gateway.hammer.rcac.purdue.edu virtual machine.
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Data Depot degraded performance on RCAC clusters
Users of Data Depot on RCAC clusters are currently experiencing significant performance degradation. The symptoms manifest as delays in listing or accessing files in /depot, significant lags in terminal sessions (especially if you have Data Depot in...
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Update to Coffee-Hour Consultation Schedule
A few announcements for the RCAC community regarding our regular Coffee-Hour Consultation services. Support staff will be unavailable both today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) because of other scheduled events. Notably, tomorrow is our Annual Cyberi...