Maintenance
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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 for scheduled maintenance for up to three days from May 15-17. For details, see the rcac-help@purdue.e...
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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 building and storage systems maintenance. Some systems will also be receiving OS and scheduler upgrades....
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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 and update the PBS batch software to version 11.1. Additionally, the Radon cluster will be unavailabl...
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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 Hansen network to full functionality. The next maintenance window to address to address the root cau...
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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 Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (DXUL), Fortress is being upgraded to new, more powerfu...
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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 Mathematical Sciences Building. Some of the research computing systems also might be down or have to r...
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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. The supercomputers are scheduled to be off until Wednesday, Aug. 17. An outage to complete power an...
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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 cooling upgrade to the Math Sciences building datacenter. We estimate that these clusters will be unavail...
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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 through 6:00pm Thursday, March 31st. Update, 9:00am, March 29: Power has been restored to the Math b...
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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 supercomputers could be off through 6 p.m. Thursday, March 31. Why? An outage related to an ongoing power and...
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RCAC system maintenance scheduled
RCAC systems will be unavailable from 8am-6pm Friday, October 9, for electrical work in the MATH data center and system maintenance. The Coates Linux cluster will not be returned to service until Tuesday afternoon, October 13, so RCAC staff can cond...
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The Radon Linux cluster will be unavailable Tuesday and Wednesday, August 25-26, for hardware upgrades and a conversion from Debian Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5). Since this upgrade changes the version of Linux used on the cluster, all...
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RCAC system and data center maintenance
RCAC systems including the DXUL/fortress archival storage system will be unavailable beginning at 8am Tuesday, 3/17, while system and MATH data center maintenance is performed. All systems are expected to be back in service by 6pm Thursday, 3/19, and...
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HPC system maintenance planned for Wednesday thru Friday, August 15-17
The RCAC HPC systems will be unavailable Wednesday through Friday, August 15-17, so that system maintenance can be performed. Systems involved include all RCAC Linux clusters, Condor, the SGI Altix, the IBM SP and Regattas, and the Sun F6800 cluster....
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DXUL/Fortress maintenance planned for Wednesday, August 15
The DXUL/Fortress archival storage system will be unavailable from 9am-5pm Wednesday, August 15, while system maintenance is performed. Please refer questions about this service interruption to rcac-help@purdue.edu.