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Maintenance

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

    This afternoon, at 5:00pm EDT github.rcac.purdue.edu was taken down for brief emergency maintenance. GitHub announced a critical security vulnerability this week. As a result, our GitHub instance was taken down for a few minutes of patching. Users of...

  • Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters

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    Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

    The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at September 27, 2016 7:00am - September 28, 2016 11:59pm EDT, for Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters. The cluster will return to partial production by midnight that day, but will remain at re...

  • Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

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    This work was largely postponed due to other concerns. A few related systems were relocated successfully during this time. Original Message: The hardware powering all Firebox Virtual Servers will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, September 27th,...

  • EXRC Maintenance

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    The EXRC cluster has been returned to normal operations as of Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 at 8:10pm EDT. Please let us know if you experience any problems. Thank you. Original Message: The EXRC cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, Nove...

  • Emergency Cluster Maintenance

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    The Carter Cluster was returned to production at 10:45pm on November 7. We apologize for this extended outage. Update: November 7, 2016 6:01pm Work on reinstalling the Carter nodes continues. All other systems have returned normal operations. We...

  • Emergency Depot Maintenance

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    The Data Depot has concluded successfully, and it been returned to normal operations as of Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 1:30pm EST. Original Message: The Data Depot will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 20...

  • Emergency Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

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    The Firebox maintenance work concluded successfully as of Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 11:30pm EDT. Original Message: All Firebox Virtual Servers will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 8:00am EDT....

  • Halstead Maintenance

    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 1:00pm EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December...

  • Halstead Maintenance

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    The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday December 14, 2016 at 10:00am. Original message: The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 a...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster is back online as of 4:50 PM after scheduled early-access maintenance. Unfortunately, queued jobs were lost due to complications during maintenance. If you had any jobs queued and waiting before maintenance started, you will need...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 at 10:00am EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, January 4...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. This work is being done during the se...

  • Carter Cluster Maintenance

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    The maintenance for Carter cluster was cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The cluster has remained in service. Original Notice The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for emergen...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

    The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:00pm. Original Message The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 at...

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

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    Patching has been completed and github.rcac.purdue.edu service is back in full production mode. Original message Tonight, Thursday, January 12, 2017, at 9:00pm – 10:00pm EST github.rcac.purdue.edu will be taken down for brief emergency maintenance. G...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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    Conte is back in production, and jobs have started running. Thank you for your patience. ===== Because of additional work required to fix a configuration problem, this maintenance is running past the scheduled end time. We are extending the outage...

  • Emergency Security Patching of RCAC Clusters

    Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgraded to a newer version during February 2, 2017 5:00pm - March 2, 2017 5:00pm EST. Unlike other cl...

  • Conte and Hathi Cluster Maintenance

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    The Conte and Hathi clusters have been updated and returned to full production. This is a gentle reminder that the Conte and Hathi clusters will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance beginning at Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 at 8:00am EST. Please sa...

  • RCAC Thinlinc Maintenance

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    UPDATE: At this time, the maintenance has been completed and is back in service. The Thinlinc cluster will be unavailable starting at 5pm on March 14th until midnight for necessary maintenance and upgrades. During this time, the remote desktop servic...