Maintenance
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The Hathi cluster has been taken down for emergency maintenance to address a security issue. Engineers are investigating the situation now and we will update this as we are able to determine a return to service.
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Conte Cluster Emergency Maintenance
The Conte Cluster has been returned to production. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to rcac-help@purdue.edu. This is a gentle reminder that the Conte cluster will be offline tomorrow (Wed) beginning at 8:00am for an emerge...
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The Fortress archive will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, August 17th, 2017 at 8:00am, for regular maintenance and will return to full production that day by 5:00pm. During this maintenance, Fortress will have some availability features and fir...
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HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
HalsteadGPU is back in full production and job scheduling has been resumed. Please let us know if you see any issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. Please note, the next planned maintenance will be Wednesday, September 13. Original Message Wednesday, Augu...
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The issues with Globus have been resolved, and the Fortress archive is fully restored to normal operations. This concludes this maintenance. Update: July 19, 2017 9:36pm: The work on Fortress has been completed and it is in normal production for al...
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The Hammer cluster has been successfully returned to full production. This concludes this maintenance. Update: July 18, 2017 5:01pm: The Hammer cluster has most of the reconfiguration complete, but work continues on a good portion of the nodes whic...
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Hathi, Radon, and Specialized Cluster Maintenance
Update message: After performing necessary repairs, Radon has been returned to service. -- Previous message: After consulting with vendor support, we have determined that Radon has experienced a failure in its network hardware. Parts and and a vendo...
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Extension of monthly GitHub maintenance
Engineers and GitHub support have resolved the issues encountered earlier this afternoon and GitHub is back online and running normally again. We apologize for the disruption this may have caused. If you encounter any issues please let us know at rca...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Fortress will return to full production by Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Fortress will have the Hig...
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Emergency Maintenance on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
As of 7:15pm, all queues on these clusters have resumed scheduling. Nodes will continue to be upgraded as they finish current jobs and become available. In the interim, the clusters will run in a degraded state, but will continue to start new jobs...
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Update: April 13, 2017 5:02pm The EXRC cluster has been returned to service. Original Message: The EXRC cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full prod...
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Rice, Snyder, Hammer, Scholar Maintenance
The Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters have been returned to service. Please note that Thinlinc clients and web browser access can be found at: Rice: desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu Hammer: desktop.hammer.rcac.purdue.edu Snyder: desktop.snyder.r...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at 11:59pm EDT. During this time, Halstead will have the...
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Emergency Carter Cluster Maintenance
Update: Owner queues on Carter have been restarted. While Carter is currently deemed stable, performance is still impacted. Engineers are closely monitoring the situation and will take corrective action if necessary. Update: At this time, only Carter...
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UPDATE: As of 11:45a, the Scholar cluster maintenance was completed. Cluster is back in service. The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning on Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to f...
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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...
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Conte and Hathi Cluster Maintenance
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...
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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...
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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...
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Emergency maintenance for GitHub
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...