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Maintenance

  • Weber Maintenance

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    The Weber cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 at 5:00pm. During this time, Weber will have additional hardw...

  • Scholar Winter Maintenance

    As of 2:30 pm, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Scholar cluster back to normal service. Any PBS jobs that were running have been deleted, as Scholar’s primary batch scheduler has been switched from PBS/Torque to Slurm. Pleas...

  • Monthly Github maintenance

    Once again, the github.rcac server will be unavailable on October 16, 2019 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM for maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the server in production. Operations requir...

  • Fortress HPSS Upgrade

    October 8, 2019 8:00am - October 9, 2019 12:00pm EDT, Fortress will be upgraded to a new version of HPSS. This will also require updated hsi and htar binaries for all users. If you are using a Research Computing system, such as one of the cluster...

  • Update: Hammer Cluster Maintenace

    Update: As of 9:45am, the Hammer cluster has been returned to normal service. Job queues have been enabled and job scheduling has been resumed. We apologize for the disruption of service. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu. Original: Th...

  • Emergency Scholar Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster front-end login hosts will all be rebooted today between 6:00pm – 7:00pm EDT. We hope this, in conjunction with other minor software changes being made concurrently, will help address problems being seen by students using RStudio...

  • Emergency Scholar scratch file system maintenance

    Engineers are taking offline Scholar's scratch file system for emergency hardware maintenance Monday, August 12, 2019 from 5:00pm - 6:15pm EDT. Any jobs or applications that attempt to use the scratch file system during this time will either hang or...

  • WSC & WCERES Cluster Maintenance

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    The WCERES and WSC Hadoop cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday , August 6, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, WCERES and WSC H...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Maintenance

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    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 25th, 2019 at 12:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday , July 25, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Gilbreth will have minor ope...

  • Hammer Community Cluster and CMS Storage Cluster Maintenance

    The Hammer community cluster and CMS storage cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this tim...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    The Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Snyder will have minor operat...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Halstead will have minor oper...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have minor op...

  • Scholar Two Day Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Scholar will have operating sy...

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance

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    The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operating syst...

  • Emergency Github maintenance

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    Due to a critical vulnerability that was found, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 2:30pm EDT for an emergency maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be comple...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will have minor operating sy...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT for maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive system updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail unti...

  • Monthly Workbench maintenance

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    Once again, the first Thursday of the month, the Workbench cluster will be unavailable Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the cluster will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the serv...

  • Fortress Archive Upgrade

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive a major upgrade to the HPSS version. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress wil...