Maintenance
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The Peregrine1 cluster will be unavailable beginning at 8:00am on Monday, May 19, 2014, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm, Tuesday, May 20. During this time, the cluster's network link to West Lafayette...
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In order to repair a hardware issue with the underlying disk storage comprising LustreC, ITaP storage engineers will execute a brief maintenance on the filesystem on Monday morning, April 7, 2014. This issue is currently impacting the filesystem's re...
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Fortress HPSS Archive Maintenance
The IBM T3584 tape library serving Fortress is scheduled to be down Wednesday, March 19, 2014 from 8AM to 5PM for a hardware upgrade. Additional tape capacity and tape drives will be added to support increased demand. HPSS will remain accessible, ne...
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During the maintenance scheduled for 3/15/2014-3/16/2014, the Rossmann cluster will be upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 6. Only those PBS jobs with walltimes short enough that they will finish prior to the beginning of this maintenance...
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UPDATE - As of 7:45pm Sunday, March 16th, 2014, the fileserver maintenance has completed successfully, and cluster systems are back online. All Research Computing systems will be unavailable from 8:00am Saturday, 3/15/2014 through Sunday, 3/16/2014...
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The Hansen, Coates, and Rossmann clusters will be unavailable beginning at 8:00am on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by 5:00pm, Wednesday, January 8. During this time, these systems wil...
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Hansen and WinHPC clusters at reduced capacity
On December 21, 2013, the Hansen and WinHPC clusters will operate at reduced capacity while datacenter power maintenance is performed on a portion of the system. In the days leading up to December 21st, this will appear as potentially increased queue...
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Maintenance completed on LustreD filesystem
UPDATE 6:00 pm 14 Dec 2013 As of 5:45 pm we believe this problem has been corrected and Conte has returned to normal operation. The LustreD filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, is experiencing some issues as of about 4:30 pm Saturday 14 Dec 2013. S...
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LustreC Filesystem Maintenance
The high performance scratch file system (LustreC) supporting the Carter, Hansen, Peregrine1, and WinHPC research clusters is in need of mandatory maintenance work. The work should be performed as soon as possible in order to ensure full performance...
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Software Stack Changes during Carter Maintenance
Between July 8 and July 16, Carter will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. On July 8, there will be changes made to the software stack on most of ITaP's community clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel co...
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As you may be aware, on April 5, the Board of Trustees approved the purchase of the next generation of community cluster, to be named "Conte". Since that time, ITaP staff have begun preparations for installing the new system, which will arr...
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Updated, 3/29/2013 During the datacenter migration the core server for the Fortress HPSS system experienced a failure with its boot device. Vendor engineers are working on the issue, and as a result, the estimate to Fortress's return to production ha...
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On Tuesday, 12 March 2013, the samba.rcac.purdue.edu host will be offline for about 2 hours between 8:00 and noon for maintenance. This will not affect any running jobs or new job submission, but will mean that people who use Samba to map their home...
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During the March 12 to March 14 maintenance window, the WinHPC cluster will be unavailable due to upgrades to the electrical service in the MATH data center. WinHPC will be shut down at 8:00 am Tuesday, 12 March, 2013, and is expected to return to se...
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Scheduled Maintenance - RCAC home directory upgrades
Update - 7:00pm, 1/4/2013: - All community clusters (Steele, Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter, and Peregrine1) are back in production. Radon is currently not in production, as ITaP engineers are addressing issues encountered during the upgrade. T...
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Software Stack Changes during Scheduled Maintenance
During the New Years' weekend holiday, all ITaP HPC resources will be unavailable due to a scheduled upgrade of research home directories. While the systems are down they will also receive several updates to the software stack and modules. These upda...
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Scheduled Maintenance for Radon Cluster
UPDATE - 12:40 pm 27 Nov 2012: The update went smoothly, with no delays or problems, and Radon has returned to service as of 12:30 pm, 5 and a half hours earlier than expected. Please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu if you see any problems with...
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Scheduled Maintenance - October 2012
UPDATE: 9 October, 2012 The Coates and Rossmann Clusters have both returned to production, and their maintenance is completed, as of 11:30 am, Tuesday 9 October, 2012 The Coates and Rossmann clusters will go down for scheduled maintenance at 8:00 am...
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ADIC Scalar 10k tape library maintenance
From 8:00am-12pm on Friday, September 7, 2012, the ADIC Scalar 10K library serving the Fortress archive will be unavailable while emergency preventative maintenance is performed. Fortress will still be able to write files into HPSS, and files already...
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Scheduled Maintenance - August 2012
In August 2012, some RCAC systems will be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service and chilled water upgrades in the Math building and OS and scheduler upgrades on the systems. Planned Maintenance Timelin...