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Maintenance

  • Data Workbench Maintenance

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    The Data Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 24, at 8:00am for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the cluster will have minor operating system security patches and upgrades applied. Workbench will be returned to servi...

  • GitHub Maintenance

    The Research Computing GitHub service will undergo maintenance beginning at 6:00PM on April 15, 2020. During this time the service will be unavailable. We expect the GitHub service to resume normal operation by 8:00PM.

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which requests file...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be taken down for regular inter-semester maintenance and upgrades starting at Monday, June 15th, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. All jobs which cannot complete before then will be held queued during this time, and no one will be able to...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Halstead will have the operating system patched and a maintena...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have the operating system patched and a maintenance up...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be taken down for a short maintenance on Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 10:00am EDT. During this maintenance, we will apply patches to the RStudio Server on Scholar. All jobs which cannot complete before the start of the main...

  • RCAC GitHub Maintenance

    The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 5:00pm EDT....

  • Gilbreth Cluster Maintenance

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    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have the operating system patched and a maintena...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

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    The Weber cluster will be taken down for regular maintenance and upgrades beginning on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. During this time, Weber will have operating system updates applied. Users will be unable to log in or use Weber for inter...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its ta...

  • Rice Scheduler Issues

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    As of about 8:15 pm yesterday (Monday 12 October) the Slurm batch scheduler on Rice entered a degraded state due to a problem with its internal database. Job Scheduling on Rice has been paused while we work on this issue. We will provide an update b...

  • Bell will be unavailable Tuesday night through Thursday

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    The Bell Cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 8:00pm EDT. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's internal configuration. During...

  • Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday

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    The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's int...

  • Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS Clusters Maintenance

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    The Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the clusters will have their operating...

  • Home and Applications Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters

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    Most of the research computing clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop) as well as some other minor systems will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 at 9:00am EST, for...

  • Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday

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    The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to fine-tune performance of the Bell scratch filesystem and...

  • Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday

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    The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will work on finalizing the cluster's internal configuration. Both cluster front-ends and compute nodes...

  • Monthly RCAC GitHub Maintenance

    The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 9:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 at 12:00pm EST...