Article #593: Carter Maintenance
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"...
Maintenance
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Article #575: Fortress tape library upgrade
Updated, 3/29/2013 During the datacenter migration the core server for the Fortress HPSS system experienced a failure with its boot device. Vendor eng...
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Article #574: Samba maintenance outage
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 affec...
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Article #571: Scheduled Maintenance
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...
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Article #559: 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 curr...
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Article #561: 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 s...
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Article #556: 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 ho...
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Article #548: 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...
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Article #547: 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 preventati...
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Article #538: 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 upgr...
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Article #528: Community clusters, storage to be off line for upgrades and maintenance
Purdue’s Community Cluster Program supercomputers, related high-performance data storage and the Fortress archival data storage system will be down fo...
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Article #526: Scheduled Maintenance - May 2012
In May 2012, all RCAC systems will each be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service work in the Math build...
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Article #514: System Maintenance - Spring Break 2012
During the week of spring break, 2012, the Steele, Coates, and Rossmann clusters will each be down for maintenance for one day to install OS patches a...
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Article #495: Hansen Network Maintenance
Updated 11/30/11: Network engineers have identified the cause of the network issue in question, and have applied a workaround, which has restored the...
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Article #485: Fortress archive upgrade to HPSS
UPDATE: Archive Conversion moved to Oct. 7-14 Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fort...
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Article #463: ITaP research computers to be down two weekends in August for building upgrade
ITaP’s research computing systems will be shut down at least part of August 6-7 and August 13-14 because of an ongoing power upgrade project at the Ma...
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Article #473: Major research computing systems down during Aug. 5-17 for building upgrades
Major ITaP research computing systems will be shut down beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug 5, including the Rossmann, Coates, Moffett and Radon clusters....
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Article #472: MATH Datacenter upgrades, starting Friday, August 5
Beginning at 5:00 pm, Friday, August 5th, the Coates and Rossmann supercomputer clusters will be unavailable due to work to complete a power and cooli...
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Article #456: All RCAC systems unavailable some portion of Tue-Fri, 3/29-4/1
All RCAC systems will be unavailable on Tuesday, March 29th from 3:00am – 6:00pm. The Rossmann, Coates, Radon, and Moffett clusters will remain down t...
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Article #457: ITaP research computers to be down during building upgrades
What’s happening? ITaP’s research computing systems will be shut down beginning at 3 a.m. Tuesday, March 29. The Coates and Rossmann cluster supercomp...