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Maintenance

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

    The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:00pm. Original Message The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 at...

  • Carter Cluster Maintenance

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    The maintenance for Carter cluster was cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The cluster has remained in service. Original Notice The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for emergen...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. This work is being done during the se...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 at 10:00am EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, January 4...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster is back online as of 4:50 PM after scheduled early-access maintenance. Unfortunately, queued jobs were lost due to complications during maintenance. If you had any jobs queued and waiting before maintenance started, you will need...

  • Halstead Maintenance

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    The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday December 14, 2016 at 10:00am. Original message: The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 a...

  • Halstead Maintenance

    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 1:00pm EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December...

  • Emergency Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

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    The Firebox maintenance work concluded successfully as of Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 11:30pm EDT. Original Message: All Firebox Virtual Servers will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 8:00am EDT....

  • Emergency Depot Maintenance

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    The Data Depot has concluded successfully, and it been returned to normal operations as of Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 1:30pm EST. Original Message: The Data Depot will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 20...

  • Emergency Cluster Maintenance

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    The Carter Cluster was returned to production at 10:45pm on November 7. We apologize for this extended outage. Update: November 7, 2016 6:01pm Work on reinstalling the Carter nodes continues. All other systems have returned normal operations. We...

  • EXRC Maintenance

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    The EXRC cluster has been returned to normal operations as of Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 at 8:10pm EDT. Please let us know if you experience any problems. Thank you. Original Message: The EXRC cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, Nove...

  • Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

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    This work was largely postponed due to other concerns. A few related systems were relocated successfully during this time. Original Message: The hardware powering all Firebox Virtual Servers will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, September 27th,...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

    The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at September 27, 2016 7:00am - September 28, 2016 11:59pm EDT, for Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters. The cluster will return to partial production by midnight that day, but will remain at re...

  • Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters

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    Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

    This afternoon, at 5:00pm EDT github.rcac.purdue.edu was taken down for brief emergency maintenance. GitHub announced a critical security vulnerability this week. As a result, our GitHub instance was taken down for a few minutes of patching. Users of...

  • Monthly Github maintenance

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    The maintenance is complete and github.rcac is back in production, now at version 2.7.3. Apart from the usual patches and bugfixes, this is also a feature release. Release notes can be found at: https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.7.3/notes Than...

  • Emergency Maintenance for EXRC Datacenter

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    Update The EXRC system has been temporarily relocated while plumbing repairs and mold abatement are being completed. The system has been returned to service and is fully operational. Once the repairs are complete and the system can be returned to it...

  • Radon Cluster Maintenance

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    Update As of 5:50 pm, Tuesday, 16 Aug 2016, the Radon cluster has been returned to service and is fully operational. Thank you for your patience. Update Due to unanticipated conflicts between the upgraded scheduler and our network configuration, the...

  • Monthly Github maintenance

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    The monthly GitHub maintenance is now complete and github.rcac is back up and running with the latest bug fixes and security patches. Thank you for your patience. Please let us know if you see any issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. Original Message Once...

  • Monthly GitHub maintenance

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    The maintenance is complete and github.rcac is back in production, now at version 2.6.4. There are several bug fixes and security patches in this version, but no major feature updates. Additionally, an infrastructure change has been made to the way...