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Maintenance

  • Hammer Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Hammer cluster will be taken down on Monday, June 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Hammer will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    As of 2:55pm, engineers have completed the CentOS7 upgrade and maintenance and have returned the Rice cluster back to normal service. All queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. Please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) a...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Snyder cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 21st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Snyder will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...

  • HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Because of concurrent work on the Halstead cluster, this is expected to be down two days, and HalsteadGPU will not return to ser...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Halstead cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Halstead will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect ap...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, May 3rd, 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 to...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be co...

  • Data Depot Maintenance

    As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Depot services have been returned to production. Users who were previously advised to connect to \\data...

  • BrownGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have minor operating system securit...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have minor operating system security pat...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, April 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for regular 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...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 8:00am - 11:00am 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...

  • Halstead Scratch Upgrade

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    Halstead and HalsteadGPU will be having a new scratch filesystem installed on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018. All access to these systems will be stopped at 5:00am EDT in order to allow for engineers to install the new hardware. Any jobs whose requested...

  • Emergency Desktop.Rice Thinlinc Maintenance

    The Thinlinc system serving the Rice cluster, desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu, has a critical misconfiguration which requires it be restarted as soon as possible. Engineers are going to proceed with this restart of Thinlinc services at 4:00pm today. Unf...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, March 8th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for regular 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...

  • Monthly Github Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, March 7, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EST for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...

  • Hathi Hadoop Cluster Maintenance

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    The Hathi Hadoop cluster will be down for regular maintenance and updates starting on Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST. The cluster will be returned to service by 5:00pm. During this time, Hathi will be upgraded to a new Hadoop base image,...

  • EXRC Maintenance

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    The EXRC resource will be unavailable today, 30 Jan 2018 starting at 2:30 pm. It will return to service approximately an hour later. During this time, its front-end server will receive security updates to its operating system. Thank you for your pat...

  • Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench system will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. Workbench will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have...