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Maintenance

  • Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday

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    The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's int...

  • Bell will be unavailable Tuesday night through Thursday

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    The Bell Cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 8:00pm EDT. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's internal configuration. During...

  • Rice Scheduler Issues

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    As of about 8:15 pm yesterday (Monday 12 October) the Slurm batch scheduler on Rice entered a degraded state due to a problem with its internal database. Job Scheduling on Rice has been paused while we work on this issue. We will provide an update b...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its ta...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

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    The Weber cluster will be taken down for regular maintenance and upgrades beginning on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. During this time, Weber will have operating system updates applied. Users will be unable to log in or use Weber for inter...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Maintenance

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    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have the operating system patched and a maintena...

  • RCAC GitHub Maintenance

    The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 5:00pm EDT....

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be taken down for a short maintenance on Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 10:00am EDT. During this maintenance, we will apply patches to the RStudio Server on Scholar. All jobs which cannot complete before the start of the main...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have the operating system patched and a maintenance up...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Halstead will have the operating system patched and a maintena...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be taken down for regular inter-semester maintenance and upgrades starting at Monday, June 15th, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. All jobs which cannot complete before then will be held queued during this time, and no one will be able to...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which requests file...

  • GitHub Maintenance

    The Research Computing GitHub service will undergo maintenance beginning at 6:00PM on April 15, 2020. During this time the service will be unavailable. We expect the GitHub service to resume normal operation by 8:00PM.

  • Data Workbench Maintenance

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    The Data Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 24, at 8:00am for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the cluster will have minor operating system security patches and upgrades applied. Workbench will be returned to servi...

  • Emergency GitHub Maintenance

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    The Research Computing GitHub service will undergo emergency maintenance beginning at 11:00am on March 18, 2020 to address a storage issue. During this time the service will be unavailable. We expect the GitHub service to resume normal operation by...

  • Preventative Scholar Maintenance

    In order to alleviate gradual degradation of performance on Scholar, all the front-end login nodes will be restarted shortly after midnight Sunday (Saturday night). This may be necessary on a weekly basis, although engineers continue to monitor these...

  • Fortress Archive Emergency Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Tuesday, February 11, 2020 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm EST for emergency maintenance. During this time, Fortress will be updated to correct a minor problem requiring immediate attention. Any work which requests files...

  • Hammer Winter Maintenance

    Update: The Hammer Cluster maintenance is complete and the cluster is back in service. Original: The Hammer cluster will be unavailable beginning on Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 at 8:00am, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full pr...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive system updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or...