Maintenance
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DXUL/Fortress maintenance planned for Wednesday, August 15
The DXUL/Fortress archival storage system will be unavailable from 9am-5pm Wednesday, August 15, while system maintenance is performed. Please refer questions about this service interruption to rcac-help@purdue.edu.
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HPC system maintenance planned for Wednesday thru Friday, August 15-17
The RCAC HPC systems will be unavailable Wednesday through Friday, August 15-17, so that system maintenance can be performed. Systems involved include all RCAC Linux clusters, Condor, the SGI Altix, the IBM SP and Regattas, and the Sun F6800 cluster....
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RCAC system and data center maintenance
RCAC systems including the DXUL/fortress archival storage system will be unavailable beginning at 8am Tuesday, 3/17, while system and MATH data center maintenance is performed. All systems are expected to be back in service by 6pm Thursday, 3/19, and...
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The Radon Linux cluster will be unavailable Tuesday and Wednesday, August 25-26, for hardware upgrades and a conversion from Debian Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5). Since this upgrade changes the version of Linux used on the cluster, all...
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RCAC system maintenance scheduled
RCAC systems will be unavailable from 8am-6pm Friday, October 9, for electrical work in the MATH data center and system maintenance. The Coates Linux cluster will not be returned to service until Tuesday afternoon, October 13, so RCAC staff can cond...
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ITaP research computers to be down during building upgrades
What’s happening? ITaP’s research computing systems will be shut down beginning at 3 a.m. Tuesday, March 29. The Coates and Rossmann cluster supercomputers could be off through 6 p.m. Thursday, March 31. Why? An outage related to an ongoing power and...
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All RCAC systems unavailable some portion of Tue-Fri, 3/29-4/1
All RCAC systems will be unavailable on Tuesday, March 29th from 3:00am – 6:00pm. The Rossmann, Coates, Radon, and Moffett clusters will remain down through 6:00pm Thursday, March 31st. Update, 9:00am, March 29: Power has been restored to the Math b...
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MATH Datacenter upgrades, starting Friday, August 5
Beginning at 5:00 pm, Friday, August 5th, the Coates and Rossmann supercomputer clusters will be unavailable due to work to complete a power and cooling upgrade to the Math Sciences building datacenter. We estimate that these clusters will be unavail...
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Major research computing systems down during Aug. 5-17 for building upgrades
Major ITaP research computing systems will be shut down beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug 5, including the Rossmann, Coates, Moffett and Radon clusters. The supercomputers are scheduled to be off until Wednesday, Aug. 17. An outage to complete power an...
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ITaP research computers to be down two weekends in August for building upgrade
ITaP’s research computing systems will be shut down at least part of August 6-7 and August 13-14 because of an ongoing power upgrade project at the Mathematical Sciences Building. Some of the research computing systems also might be down or have to r...
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Fortress archive upgrade to HPSS
UPDATE: Archive Conversion moved to Oct. 7-14 Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL), Fortress is being upgraded to new, more powerfu...
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Updated 11/30/11: Network engineers have identified the cause of the network issue in question, and have applied a workaround, which has restored the Hansen network to full functionality. The next maintenance window to address to address the root cau...
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System Maintenance - Spring Break 2012
During the week of spring break, 2012, the Steele, Coates, and Rossmann clusters will each be down for maintenance for one day to install OS patches and update the PBS batch software to version 11.1. Additionally, the Radon cluster will be unavailabl...
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Scheduled Maintenance - May 2012
In May 2012, all RCAC systems will each be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service work in the Math building and storage systems maintenance. Some systems will also be receiving OS and scheduler upgrades....
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Community clusters, storage to be off line for upgrades and maintenance
Purdue’s Community Cluster Program supercomputers, related high-performance data storage and the Fortress archival data storage system will be down for scheduled maintenance for up to three days from May 15-17. For details, see the rcac-help@purdue.e...
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Scheduled Maintenance - August 2012
In August 2012, some RCAC systems will be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service and chilled water upgrades in the Math building and OS and scheduler upgrades on the systems. Planned Maintenance Timelin...
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ADIC Scalar 10k tape library maintenance
From 8:00am-12pm on Friday, September 7, 2012, the ADIC Scalar 10K library serving the Fortress archive will be unavailable while emergency preventative maintenance is performed. Fortress will still be able to write files into HPSS, and files already...
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Scheduled Maintenance - October 2012
UPDATE: 9 October, 2012 The Coates and Rossmann Clusters have both returned to production, and their maintenance is completed, as of 11:30 am, Tuesday 9 October, 2012 The Coates and Rossmann clusters will go down for scheduled maintenance at 8:00 am...
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Scheduled Maintenance for Radon Cluster
UPDATE - 12:40 pm 27 Nov 2012: The update went smoothly, with no delays or problems, and Radon has returned to service as of 12:30 pm, 5 and a half hours earlier than expected. Please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu if you see any problems with...
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Software Stack Changes during Scheduled Maintenance
During the New Years' weekend holiday, all ITaP HPC resources will be unavailable due to a scheduled upgrade of research home directories. While the systems are down they will also receive several updates to the software stack and modules. These upda...