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Maintenance

  • Emergency Maintenance on Rice, Snyder, Hammer

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    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...

  • EXRC Cluster Maintenance

    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...

  • Rice, Snyder, Hammer, Scholar Maintenance

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    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...

  • Halstead Maintenance

    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...

  • Emergency Carter Cluster Maintenance

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    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...

  • Planned Scholar Maintenance

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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...

  • RCAC Thinlinc Maintenance

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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...

  • Conte and Hathi Cluster Maintenance

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    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...

  • 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...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

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    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...

  • 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...