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Maintenance

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Data Depot Maintenance

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    The Depot maintenance has been completed successfully. Depot is now back to normal operations. Other compute cluster outages running concurrent with this however, are still in progress. This maintenance window next week has been reduced as much as...

  • Math Cluster Maintenance

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    An issue was discovered shortly after Conte, Hansen, Hathi, and Radon were brought back online with the /group path on several front-ends and nodes. Any scripts or jobs that rely on the /group path may have had issues immediately following return to...

  • POD Cluster Maintenance

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    Carter and Scholar are back online for use as of 6:25am, though they will be operating with many nodes still offline. Staff will be working through Wednesday to steadily increase the number of nodes available. This concludes the POD cluster mainten...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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    Conte has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 at 5:55am EDT. All upgrades were completed, though a small number of nodes which require more attention to be fully ready for jobs remain offline for now and will be return...

  • Cluster Maintenance - Conte

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    The scheduler issue has been resolved, and Conte has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 at 9:30pm EST. Update: February 10, 2016 7:04pm There was a minor issue discovered with the newly upgraded scheduler which i...

  • Hathi & WinHPC Power Maintenance

    The Hathi and WinHPC clusters will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, February 4th, 2016 at 6:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance to the power feed. Both clusters will return to full production by Thursday, February 4th, 2016 at 5:00pm EST. During...

  • Fortress Maintenance

    Fortress will be unavailable from 8:00am to 9:00am Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 for routine maintenance.

  • Rice and Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    As of 10:40pm, the Snyder cluster was returned to normal service in the POD. This concludes this maintenance. Update: February 5, 2016 8:54pm As of 8:25 pm, Friday, 5 Feb 2016, the Rice cluster maintenance has completed and the system is returning...