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Maintenance

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, November 7, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull r...

  • Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

    During the regular first-Wednesday Firebox maintenance for November on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be briefly updated and rebooted within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EST. This maintenance will include fire...

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance

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    The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operat...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, November 1st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be return...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for regular updates and work on the high-availability switchover system. This will require a longer maintenance than typical monthly Fortress maintenance. A...

  • Brown & BrownGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown and BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown and B...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, October 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returne...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull re...

  • Software Licensing Maintenance

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    The system which handles a number of software licenses within Research Computing, charter.rcac.purdue.edu, will be ungoing maintenance Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:00am EDT. During this time, several commercial software packages, including the I...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, September 6th, 2018 at 1:00pm EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be retur...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, September 5, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not...

  • GitHub Emergency Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Friday, August 31, 2018 from 8:30am - 9:00am EDT for an emergency SSL certificate update. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull requests) may time out dur...

  • Critical maintenance of RStudio Server on Scholar

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    RStudio Server on the Scholar Cluster will be unavailable tonight, Monday 27 Aug, 2018, from 11:00 pm to approximately midnight. During this time, a fix will be implemented for a critical problem that causes the system to not accept web-based logins....

  • All Systems Maintenance

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    On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of central cooling systems across data centers and upgrades to the research networking core. This will affect...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 11, 2018 from 8:00am - 10:00am 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...

  • Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

    Each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be rebooted to have minor updates applied at some point on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EDT This work is only for routine first-Wednesday maintenance updates, and each system w...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, July 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned t...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 27, 2018 from 8:00am – 5:00pm for partial physical relocation. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and also have a portion of the servers which support it physically relocate...

  • BrownGPU Maintenance

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    The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, June 26th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have some minor configuration manage...

  • Scholar Rebuild

    The Scholar cluster for educational use has proven to be extremely useful as an in-class tool. As a result of this success, it is being rebuilt and expanded over the summer. The new Scholar will offer more and better resources for educational use a...